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July 2013
Features
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Where Have All the Shuttle Engineers Gone?
To new jobs, some odder than others
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Panthers at Sea
U.S. Navy Panthers weren’t highly evolved, but they could shoot. And they were air conditioned.
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Earth-Like Planets Could be Right Next Door
Astronomers estimate that billions of habitable planets are orbiting red dwarf stars. What would it be like to live there?
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Alaska and the Airplane
For a century, each has shaped the other.
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The Pilots of Mount McKinley
For 50 years, the world has reached the mountain on airplanes from one small town.
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Alaska’s Crash Epidemic
How technology and an FAA regional office ended it.
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Jan Evans recalls how it was for the families of moon voyagers in the Apollo era.
The Astronaut’s Wife.
Departments
Oldies and Oddities
When Republic Aviation Folded
A historian rescued a lone document from the company’s files.
In the Museum
What’s Real, and What’s Not?
At the National Air and Space Museum, some artifacts are more genuine than others.