Air & Space Magazine

Before crashing into the moon, the Ranger spacecraft sent back images of the lunar surface 1000 times better than what could be obtained from telescopes on Earth.

A Smashing Success

How the Ranger probes’ moon crashes helped pave the way for Apollo.

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Radar Mapping the Moon

Unlike a photograph, radar provides its own illumination – the pulses sent to the surface are reflected, received back and converted into an image.

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Separated at Birth?

Cool heads think, and sometimes look, alike.

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Before Galileo?

An English eye through an English telescope.

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Gee Bee Whiz

Hard to believe it flies.

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Cities From the Sky

Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation

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Last of Its Kind

The<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>last <span style="font-style: italic;">Nimitz</span>-class aircraft carrier is commissioned.

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Prime Crew

Four decades since a big announcement.

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Space Goals – One more time

It would appear that we are in the midst of yet another attempt to define the goals and objectives of our national space program.

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Nonstop Service

Filler 'er up...again.

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Window Seat

<span style="font-style: italic;">Atlantis</span>, the ultimate glass-bottom boat.

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Turbulence-free

Or, come lie with us.

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A Brief History of Airline Passenger Seats

John H. Hill shares the aesthetic behind one of San Francisco Airport Museum's exhibitions.

Flight simulation software enables pilots to view their aircraft from outside the cockpit — at any angle.

Welcome to Cyberairspace

Where you can fly from Chicago to Atlanta without leaving your living room

The slower but more sophisticated HC-144A (top) is replacing the HU-25.

Then & Now: Less Haste, More Flying

Less Haste, More Flying

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Sightings

Sightings

Red Whittaker with his namesake, Red Rover II. Hours after Google announced its Lunar X Prize, Whittaker threw his ’bot in the ring.

Red and The Robots

Red Whittaker’s rovers have already gone where no robot has gone before. Will one of them make it to the moon?

F-4s at Arizona’s Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the warplane retirement home.

Where Have All the Phantoms Gone?

How a fighter-bomber-recon-attack superstar ended up as fodder for target practice

As Nemesis rocketed past 400 mph, pilot Jon Sharp entered territory held by aircraft in the Unlimited and Jet classes.

Moments and Milestones: Giddyup 409

Giddyup 409

During ground tests in a clean room last July, Mike Malin holds a color chart used to calibrate one of his Mars-bound cameras.

A Cameraman on Mars

If you really want to know the planet, flip through Mike Malin’s photo album.

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