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Printed in Space
If your star tracker breaks on the way to the moon, just hit Command P.
Area 51: Origins
America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.
Need for Speed
Airplanes with a mission: Fly faster.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Vietnam Memoir
Stories from the war that shaped a generation.
Blogs
If it flies, hovers, launches, or orbits, you can read about it here.
Former A-10 crew chief and veteran aviation geek John Sotham scans the skies.
Lunar scientist Paul Spudis on the current U.S. space program.
Inside the cockpit with airline pilot Steve Satre.
Ruminations on flight by George Larson.
Astronaut Don Pettit blogs from space—and other exotic locales.
On Air Blog
The Squeeze
Aviation capacity may look like it's growing, but really, it's just getting sliced thinner.
By George Larson
Space Exploration
The Astronaut’s Wife
Jan Evans recalls how it was for the families of moon voyagers in the Apollo era.
By Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
Flight Today
The Pilots of Mount McKinley
For 50 years, the world has reached the mountain on airplanes from one small town.
By Larry Lowe
The Daily Planet Blog
Air & Space for the iPad
Our June/July issue is the first produced for the tablet.
By Linda Shiner
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Bush Pilot Hall of Fame
Meet the pilots who created the Alaska bush pilot legend.
By Linda Shiner
Space Exploration
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?
By Bruce Lieberman
The Daily Planet Blog
50 Years After Tereshkova
Russia's first woman cosmonaut, and its next.
By Tony Reichhardt
Military Aviation
When Republic Aviation Folded
A historian rescued a lone document from the company’s files.
By Joshua Stoff
Military Aviation
Panthers At Sea
U.S. Navy Panthers weren’t highly evolved, but they could shoot. And they were air conditioned.
By David Noland
Space Exploration
Driving the Space Shuttle
How a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A.
By Heather Goss
Photos
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History of Flight
Alaska and the Airplane
For a century, each has shaped the other.
By Julie Decker and Jeremy Kinney
Military Aviation
Contact!
What happens when helicopters get a little too close.
By Craig A. Thorson
Flight Today
Alaska’s Crash Epidemic
How technology and an FAA regional office ended it.
By Greg Freiherr
Photos
The Navy Gets a Panther
It wasn’t the flashiest jet fighter, but the Grumman F9F was a rugged little aircraft that did everything asked of it.
By Diane Tedeschi
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July 2013
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Air & Space Videos
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A Flock of DronesThese little UAVs are here to help – or will be soon. |
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Aerobatic BeechAlways pretty in flight, the twin-engine Beechcraft Model 18 is even lovelier in a loop. |
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Directing Hermann GöringThe German Luftwaffe commander did a turn for the film cameras in the final days of World War II. |
Air & Space Interview
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Driving the Space ShuttleHow a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A. |
Photo Essay
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