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Why contrails hang around.
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Looking for ways to celebrate a half century of spaceflight? Here's fifty of 'em.
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To Tim Pickens, rockets are the only way to go.
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A year after World War II ended, the U.S. Navy mounted a massive-though hastily planned-mission to the bottom of the world.
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A young military airplane craftsman makes his mark.
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Finding an airworthy Zero is not easy these days. In fact, you can count them on one hand.
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A violent clash of cultures and a race for technology.
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Dainty Monster
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Take our Earhart quiz and find out.
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An eminent space historian looks back on the first 50 years of space exploration.
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A DARPA satellite takes a big step toward automated satellite servicing.
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A launch this week could advance plans to build a private space station.
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The space station gets a new set of solar arrays, and a new shape.
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Hubble pictures a distant world and its moon.
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Spacewalking astronauts add solar arrays to the space station.
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More than 50 airplanes will be onhand at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center June 16.
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An array of infrared telescopes returns the first photo of the surface of a sunlike star.
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The jet engine pioneer would have turned 100 today.
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Crop mazes (not circles) celebrate an advanced (not alien) mode of transport.
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Scientists report evidence for a big impact in North America just 13,000 years ago.
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