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Based on the popular print Collector's Edition Space Shuttle 1981-2011, this digital version includes bonus interactive features, extra photographs, and multiple videos.
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What the astronauts really said
Apollo "onboard voice" recordings captured the moon astronauts' conversations -- cussing and all -- when no one else was listening.
Drones for Hire
The newest eyes in the sky are drawing the attention of power companies, conservation groups, and the ACLU.
Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission
So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Disaster at Xichang
An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history’s worst launch accident.
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.
History of Flight
Close Formation
The parasitic aircraft of Britain’s Short Brothers.
By George C. Larson, Member, NAA
The Daily Planet Blog
Unmanned X-47B Launches from a Carrier
For the first time in history, a combat aircraft with no pilot onboard took off from an aircraft carrier at sea.
By Tony Reichhardt
The Once and Future Moon Blog
Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet”
New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon.
By Paul D. Spudis
History of Flight
The Titanium Gambit
During the Cold War, Boeing execs got a strange call from the State Department: Would you guys mind trading secrets with the Russians?
By Joe Sutter
Space Exploration
The Great Asteroid Grab
Instead of astronauts going to the rock, the rock will come to them.
By Guy Gugliotta
Flight Today
For Safe Landings On Two Planets
The 2013 National Air and Space Museum Trophy Winners.
By The Editors
Military Aviation
Cancelled: Britain’s High-Mach Heartbreak
The TSR-2 bomber was a case of aeronautical genius foiled by political foolishness.
By David Noland
Space Exploration
NASA’s Frequent Flier
After logging nearly 1,400 hours in orbit, Jerry Ross reflects on spaceflight past and future.
By Diane Tedeschi
History of Flight
Lindbergh’s Trainer: The Brunner-Winkle Bird
The plane that taught Anne Morrow Lindbergh to fly is flying again.
By Paul Glenshaw
Space Exploration
Beyond the Moon
It’s not a place, exactly. But it could be NASA’s next destination.
By Guy Gugliotta
Military Aviation
Does Missile Defense Actually Work?
Not 100 percent. But it’s better than it used to be.
By Roger A. Mola
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May 2013
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