Air & Space Magazine

What do you get when you cross a car with an airplane?

The Propeller Car

What do you get when you cross a car with an airplane?

The first ground-based photo of a near-Earth asteroid.

Interloper

The first ground-based photo of a near-Earth asteroid.

The view from a Canadian CT-155 Hawk.

Over Cold Lake

The view from a Canadian CT-155 Hawk.

Boeing arranges a family portrait of its 7-series airliners.

Seven-Fest

Boeing arranges a family portrait of its 7-series airliners.

Alan Bean's Corvette goes on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.

A Moonwalker's Ride

Alan Bean's Corvette goes on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.

The Opportunity Mars rover prepares to descend into a deep crater.

Scouting Victoria

The Opportunity Mars rover prepares to descend into a deep crater.

Barrington Irving, the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world.

World Beater

Barrington Irving, the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world.

Armstrong and Aldrin plant the U.S. flag on the moon, July 1969.

The Flag is Still There

Armstrong and Aldrin plant the U.S. flag on the moon, July 1969.

Glacier Girl in flight.

Glacier Girl: The Back Story

How it got trapped in the ice, and how it got out

Astronaut Sunita Williams strikes a pose during an exercise session on the space station.

STS-117: The Inside Guide

What's going on beside the spacewalks.

Why do we have to turn off iPods during takeoff?

Astronaut John Blaha stands inside the Shuttle Launch Experience "crew pod."

Your Space Shuttle Ride Awaits

A new ride at the Kennedy Space Center is -- sadly -- the closest most of us will come to experiencing the thrill of a shuttle launch.

Alenia's robots are major players in building the giant Airbus A380 passenger liner.

Alenia's Robots

They're not as wise as R2D2, but robots are essential in building aircraft like the Airbus A380.

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The Library of Congress Manuscript Specialist

Leonard Bruno looks after some of aviation's most historic documents.

Scientist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17.

The Real Reasons We Explore Space

Ambition, curiosity, and a reason the NASA Administrator admits has nothing to do with economic benefit.

James Robbins (front row, right) poses with some of his shipmates. Behind him are Lopez (to the left) and Hendersin (to the right).

Buried at the Bottom of the World

When people die serving their country, to what lengths must a government go to recover the bodies?

Earhart first crossed the Atlantic in 1928, as a passenger. Four years later, she flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Lockheed Vega. Here, the beaming villagers of Culmore, North Ireland, pay homage to the rising star.

Amelia Earhart, American Idol

When she vanished at the age of 39, she was as big a star as Greta Garbo. Is that why some are still driven to solve the mystery?

Composite fuselage sections for Boeing's 787 are being made in four factories around the world.

Alenia's Gamble

To help build the Boeing 787's composite fuselage, Italy spends a bundle.

The array's first phase of 42 telescopes was completed this year. To build the full observatory, the SETI Institute will need a lot more money.

Can We Hear Them Now?

Speak up, space aliens. These 42 new radio telescopes are all ears.

An F/A-18 Hornet lights its afterburners to leap from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

How Things Work: Afterburners

Jets get no kick from champagne, but a little fuel in the tailpipe...

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