Air & Space Magazine

The first three paying astronauts (left to right, Greg Olsen, Mark Shuttleworth, and Dennis Tito) found that comfort was not guaranteed with their tickets. Enduring the rigors of spaceflight that professionals do was yet another price to pay.

Space Trippers

Did the first paying guests aboard the international space station get their $20 million worth?

The D.VII entered service in 1918 and quickly established itself as the best fighter of the Great World War, as beloved by German pilots as it was feared by Allies.

Cecil Lewis' War

One writer's view of flying in WWI.

Debuting in 1915, the petite French Nieuport 11 fighter was based on the design of several pre-war racers.

The Great Warplanes

Portraits of military aviation's first fleet.

Tough under pressure: Space station flight director Mark Ferring at his console during last year's STS-114 mission.

The Ground

Astronauts get the glory, but flight directors run the show.

Global Postioning System satellites provide lcoations while ADS-B-equipped aircraft share flight information. Communications satellites (not shown) can link air traffic control stations.

How Things Work: Aircraft Identification

A digital communications system could put the control tower in the cockpit.

VERA, in her original glory, leads a group of Me 262s, captured by the U.S. Air Force, as they taxi for takeoff from the airfield at Lechfeld, Germany, in 1945.

Stormbird

Stormbird

An aerial view of Baghdad International Airport.

Landing in Baghdad

At the world's most dangerous airport, it's best to get down quickly.

Visitors wait at Los Angeles International Airport to tour the new Pan Am Jet Clipper Liberty Bell, grounded during Skyshield II in October, 1961.

The Day Nobody Flew

September 11, 2001 wasn't the first time U.S. air traffic was grounded.

Strange doings in 1936

Halloween Rocket Boys

Strange doings in 1936

The first UAV designed for combat will soon go on display.

Pilotless Pioneer

The first UAV designed for combat will soon go on display.

NASA's STEREO launches this week to watch the Sun in 3-D.

The Violent Sun

NASA's STEREO launches this week to watch the Sun in 3-D.

View of Earth from a camera on V-2 #13, launched October 24, 1946.

The First Photo From Space

In 1946, rocket-borne cameras gave us our first look at Earth from beyond the atmosphere

100 years ago, Santos-Dumont flew the first European heavier-than-air craft.

Happy Anniversary, Alberto

100 years ago, Santos-Dumont flew the first European heavier-than-air craft.

Anousheh Ansari before her launch to the International Space Station in September 2006.

X-People

Space fans and rockets galore descend on New Mexico.

The new Air Force Memorial opens in Washington D.C.

Memorial Day

The new Air Force Memorial opens in Washington D.C.

Hubble captures two galaxies merging.

Mashup

Hubble captures two galaxies merging.

Cassini's latest panorama of the ringed planet.

Stunning Saturn

Cassini's latest panorama of the ringed planet.

A U.S. fighter meets a Russian bomber over Alaska.

Eagle and Bear

A U.S. fighter meets a Russian bomber over Alaska.

A Mars orbiter spies on a Mars rover.

Opportunity From Above

A Mars orbiter spies on a Mars rover.

John Mather takes the Nobel Prize for physics.

NASA's First Nobelist

John Mather takes the Nobel Prize for physics.

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