Air & Space Magazine

Andrei Borisenko filming one of his 360-degree tours of the space station.

Virtual Reality Comes to the Space Station

Oculus Rift arrives, as astronauts and cosmonauts send down their first 360 videos.

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Raptor Preflight

Capt. Michael Broch performs preflight inspections on an F-22A Raptor before taking off at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.

The Falcon 9, with Dragon cargo capsule on top, at launch pad 39A on Thursday.

SpaceX Launches from Historic Pad 39A

Commercial rockets take center stage at Cape Canaveral.

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Phantom Eye Tug

NASA workers pull a Boeing-developed liquid hydrogen-powered demonstrator aircraft, called Phantom Eye, across a dry lake bed at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. The Eye was designed to replace communications and intelligence satellites used on long-endurance, high altitudes missions. The demonstrator will soon go on display at the Air Force Flight Test Museum.

Ahuna Mons, shown in this simulated view as it might appear to someone standing on the surface of Ceres, is thought to be an ice volcano.

Ceres Just Got A Lot More Interesting to Astrobiologists

Indigenous organics have been found on the largest body in the asteroid belt.

Air traffic controllers will soon have to worry about the little guys, too.

Tiny Tech Will Help Drones Stay Safe in the National Airspace

ADS-B equipment is the future of air traffic control. Until now, most drones couldn’t carry it.

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Moonrise from Orbit

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins catches the moon rising in her view as she orbits Earth in the International Space Station.

A Planet Labs satellite took this image of India's PSLV launch site just two days ago. A fleet of 88 more satellites will launch from here on February 15, Indian time.

Planet Labs Goes For Record 88-Satellite Launch

The upstart remote sensing company is poised to begin daily whole-Earth photography.

Greg Stinis, three-fourths finished with his skywriting over Chino, California on January 7.

Love Is in the Air

The art of skywriting is honored on a new stamp from the USPS.

Artist's concept of a Europa lander.

A New Lander Concept for Europa

Life detection would be a key part of a mission to Jupiter’s intriguing icy moon.

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Paratrooper Training

U.S. and German paratroopers jump together out of a C-130 near Aviano Air Base in Italy.

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Hurricane Shelter

F-22 Raptors at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia squeeze in with other aircraft for protection ahead of Hurricane Hermine as it moved up the East Coast in 2016.

A fireball lights up the sky over the Colville Reservation in Washington state, November 2015.

People With Frizzy Hair Are More Likely to Hear the Sound of Meteors

That buzzing, popping, and crackling noise may be real after all.

Animation of aircraft taking off from Dubai International Airport.

PBS’s “City in the Sky” Exposes the Hidden Minutiae of Air Travel

A three-part public television documentary takes viewers to parts of the airport they’ve never seen.

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Through the Clouds

The Soyuz capsule returns with three astronauts last October 2016.

Mohan Singh with a Curtiss Model D. The aviator was proficient on both airplanes and hydroplanes.

In 1912, Mohan Singh Was Billed as “The Only Hindu Flyer in the World”

The strange tale of a barnstormer turned yoga master.

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De-stabilizing Work

An aircrew removes a panel from the right horizontal stabilizer of an EC-130H Compass Call at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.

The Human Computers puzzle out a problem in a scene from “Determination of Azimuth.”

Before “Hidden Figures,” There Was a Rock Opera About NASA’s Human Computers

Katherine Johnson’s inspirational story came to the Baltimore stage in 2015, thanks to another space scientist.

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Beechcraft Sunset

A Beechcraft twin-engine performs at the Sound of Speed Air Show in St. Joseph, Missouri.

The exoplanet GJ 1132b has some of the traits needed for habitability, but is probably lifeless.

Oxygen is Not Enough

To point us to a habitable planet, that is.

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