Air & Space Magazine

MESSENGER flies past our nearest planetary neighbor this month.

Eyes on Venus

MESSENGER flies past our nearest planetary neighbor this month.

This Saturday at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Say Goodbye to the Tomcat

This Saturday at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Great Britain's first jet trainer.

Meteors in Flight

Great Britain's first jet trainer.

Opportunity nears the edge of a giant Martian crater.

Big Hole Ahead

Opportunity nears the edge of a giant Martian crater.

A revealing new view of the famous Face on Mars.

Losing Face

A revealing new view of the famous Face on Mars.

Cassini looks back at its home planet.

The Earth and Moon From Saturn

Cassini looks back at its home planet.

Frank Schelling's 1918 Curtiss JN-4H Jenny takes the prize at Reno.

Winning Jenny

Frank Schelling's 1918 Curtiss JN-4H Jenny takes the prize at Reno.

An international crew heads to the International Space Station.

Baikonur Sendoff

An international crew heads to the International Space Station.

Cassini captures the dim light from a distant moon.

Dione Exposed

Cassini captures the dim light from a distant moon.

Boeing's Large Cargo Freighter takes to the sky.

Wide Load

Boeing's Large Cargo Freighter takes to the sky.

The space station gets a new set of solar arrays.

Power Boost

The space station gets a new set of solar arrays.

Generations of air power were on display during a recent Heritage Flight.

Snapshot: Memories Over Manhattan

Generations of air power were on display during a recent Heritage Flight.

...looks like the last one.

NASA's Next Moonship

...looks like the last one.

A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon in the skies over New Mexico. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Jeffrey Allen, USAF)

Gas Guzzlers

The Air Force looks for economy at the pump.

Would Patent #1,665,114 fly? Only in Tesla's dreams, say those in the know.

Nikola Tesla's Curious Contrivance

"You should not be at all surprised if someday you see me fly from New York to Colorado Springs in a contrivance which will resemble a gas stove and weigh almost as much."— Nikola Tesla, 1913

Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.

A Hard Day's Night

Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.

Slight tweaks to SMART-1's orbit over the course of the summer allowed engineers to direct its impact point.

Moonwhackers

Europe's SMART-1 is the first of several lunar crashes on the drawing board.

Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 sat on the ocean floor for 38 years before being recovered in 1999.

Home on the Plains

Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule settles down in Kansas.

Radio-controlled models rest between rounds.

Radio Clash

Do model airplanes ever fight each other?

Space Shuttle Atlantis is prepared for launch, July 2006.

Can the Shuttle Make It to 2010?

We ask a panel of experts to handicap NASA's odds of success.

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