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July 2014

Features

“Inconceivably noisy,” says the author, but a blast.

Geoff Dyer

The next space telescope will see to The Edge.

How to ship an $8.8 billion telescope

Today’s manual of fighter tactics was written 100 years ago, in World War I.

All X-planes ask a question. Sometimes the answer is no.

The first jumbo jet has transported the equivalent of 80 percent of the human race.

A stroll through the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s neighborhood.

Photographs by James Hill

Russia is building a rocket launch complex six time zones from Moscow. Will its aerospace industry follow?

Made from scratch, a Kestrel takes flight.

Why Douglas Skyknight crews weren’t afraid of the dark.

Technically Speaking

A guide to snark hunting at Nevada’s secure test-flight base.

Above & Beyond

Digging up a crashed F-104 in Spain.

Oldies and Oddities

However impractical, the hydrogen airship was a big hit with crowds in 1905.

In the Museum

Items from the Austrian daredevil’s record-setting jump enter the Museum’s collections.