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September 2008

Features

Forty years later, we’re about to see what the moonwalkers left behind.

Real pilots rate the performance of the airplanes in James Bond flicks.

David Lande

Cleaning up an aircraft carrier.

Phil Scott

Despite the best training and technology, why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?

Tom LeCompte

Megalifters prove you’re never too fat to fly.

Kara Platoni

On the ground with Marines in Afghanistan, the author sees a different side of close air support.

A new probe to a Martian moon may win back respect for Russia’s unmanned space program.

Photographs taken from the world’s first warplanes changed the course of battle.

Robin White

Viewport

J. R. Dailey

In the Museum

Need information? The National Air and Space Museum answers more than 3,300 questions each year.

Above & Beyond

Richard G. Woodhull, Jr.

Oldies and Oddities

Oldies and Oddities: Zeppo’s Gizmo

Nick D’Alto

Then & Now

Roger A. Mola

Moments and Milestones

Produced in cooperation with the National Aeronautic Association