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March 2016

Features

NASA thought it knew, until an alarming failure last summer.

The Army’s 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade does a dress rehearsal of a nuclear attack.

Tracking trash in orbit.

An F-22 pilot opens up about the fighter’s first combat.

The pilots who build airplanes just to go far.

How a research engineer came to lead NASA to the moon.

The Air Force isn’t saying, so we asked other spaceplane experts.

He was one of the great original airshow pilots. Why did he hide his past?

Soundings

Exploring the wreckage of the USS Macon, which went down off the California coast 80 years ago.

Technically Speaking

Fail at the drawing board and you fail in the air.

Above & Beyond

Any Uruguayan of my generation would recognize the tail number of the passenger jet that crashed in the Andes in 1972.

Soundings

And no, they aren’t alien markings.

Phil Scott

Interview

TV reporter Tom Costello recounts what he’s seen and learned in a decade of covering commercial aviation accidents.

Oldies and Oddities

The worst thing about Harqua Hala was the isolation.

In the Museum

How LM-2 came to impersonate the Apollo 11 lunar module.