NASA thought it knew, until an alarming failure last summer.
Any Uruguayan of my generation would recognize the tail number of the passenger jet that crashed in the Andes in 1972.
How LM-2 came to impersonate the Apollo 11 lunar module.
The Army’s 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade does a dress rehearsal of a nuclear attack.
Fail at the drawing board and you fail in the air.
He was one of the great original airshow pilots. Why did he hide his past?
The Air Force isn’t saying, so we asked other spaceplane experts.
The new early-warning system to protect spacecraft from orbiting junk.
A place where—still—the best practical means of travel is the airplane.
This F-16 was retired from service and disassembled last November. The aircraft will be reassembled and parked at the entrance to the New York National Guard headquarters in Latham.
The real value of the SpaceX and Blue Origin achievements is to make living on the Moon more feasible.
The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of the Veil Nebula, a small part of the enormous Cygnus Loop, the expanding remnant from an exploding star.
When your first five research stations get pummeled by the harsh polar environment, build one you can move.
A new crew lands in a Basler Turbo BT-67 (made from a retrofitted DC-3 airframe) at the French-Italian-run Concordia research station in Antarctica.
NASA’s logo may have been cooler, but the NACA emblem was worn by famous pilots like Orville Wright and Eddie Rickenbacker.
A crew chief wipes down the windshield of a C-130 Hercules before exercises for humanitarian operations.
It’s not too early to start planning the space telescopes of the 2030s.
Yet another spectacular sunrise as viewed from the International Space Station.
Humans have left their mark in the geologic record, just as alien civilizations might on other worlds.
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