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The Space Shuttle Era

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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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The Invention of Flight

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If it flies, hovers, launches, or orbits, you can read about it here.

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Inside the cockpit with airline pilot Steve Satre.

Ruminations on flight by George Larson.

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Send us your best air- or space-related shot and win cash prizes.
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Where Have All the Shuttle Engineers Gone?

To new jobs, some odder than others.
By Jeremy Davis

The Once and Future Moon Blog

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New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon.
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Bush Pilot Hall of Fame

Meet the pilots who created the Alaska bush pilot legend.
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The Navy Gets a Panther

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Alaska’s Crash Epidemic

How technology and an FAA regional office ended it.
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The Daily Planet Blog

Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity

Somebody had to do it.
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Driving the Space Shuttle

How a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A.
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The Astronaut’s Wife

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When Republic Aviation Folded

A historian rescued a lone document from the company’s files.
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