Heather Goss

 

Heather Goss is the Departments Editor at Air & Space.

★ Vought FG-1D Corsair ★ Another fighter powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-2800, the Corsair was intended for the Navy, but the initial designs provided pilot visibility too poor for carrier landings. Early production runs were given to the Marines, therefore, who turned them into legend. When the cockpit hood was redesigned, the Navy needed so many Corsairs that Vought opened production lines with Brewster and Goodyear—the former producing the FG-1 series, which flew in the May 2014 flyover. Above is an F4U-5N.

Corsairs, the Angels of Iwo Jima

Gallery: What Can the F-35 Weather?

Lockheed’s Lightning II undergoes climate testing to prove it can fly under any conditions.

Artist Katie Paterson.

A Meteorite Returns to Space, In the Name of Art

Artist Katie Paterson discusses bouncing sonatas off the moon, mapping dead stars, and her recent collaboration with the European Space Agency.

Planets are forming around the star HL Tau in this image taken by astronomers at ALMA.

Incredible Image Shows Never-Before-Seen Detail in a Solar System Being Born

This will be the go-to picture for planetary formation in astronomy textbooks.

A still image from “Found at Sea”

NASA Touts Space Station Benefits in New Video Series

Watch how some space experiments can help people on Earth.

As spaceport passengers file into the main terminal for their flight, hidden doors hiss open to welcome them.

Spaceport West

Virgin Galactic’s future launch site rises up from the New Mexico desert.

New ultra-high-definition projectors in the Einstein Planetarium give visitors an experience that rivals that of the IMAX theaters.

The Museum’s New, Revamped Planetarium

Bright stars and new shows at the Einstein.

NASA's Steve Swanson works on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly on the International Space Station in April 2014.

Why Living in Space Can be a Pain in the Head

A new study says carbon dioxide levels on board the station should be lowered.

Screenshot of the live feed from new high-definition cameras on the exterior of the International Space Station.

Watch Live HD Video of Earth From Space

New cameras on the space station give the rest of us an astronaut’s-eye view.

Felix Baumgartner's flight suit and pressured balloon gondola from his record-breaking skydive are on temporary display at the National Air and Space Museum National Mall location, before moving permanently to the Udvar-Hazy Center.

This is the Team that Knows How to Pull Off a 127,000-Foot Skydive

Red Bull Stratos talks about the jump and unveils some record-breaking artifacts.

Marc Rayman and the flight operations team in the mission control room the day Dawn launched, September 27, 2007.

A True Interplanetary Spaceship

The team behind NASA’s asteroid mission Dawn takes home the National Air and Space Museum Trophy.

An artist's impression shows the Rosetta and its lander approaching a comet as it comes alive from the sun's heat.

Rosetta's Comet Gets an Early Start

Comet 67P has gotten close enough to the sun to start sizzling.

In Iceland, at one end of the 10,000-mile-long Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a visitor could see new crust being born as magma oozes up from the interior.

Planet Earth: A Guide for Alien Scientists

If astronomers from another world sent a probe to study ours, where would you tell it to land?

NASA Gets Green Light to Extend Space Station to 2024

The White House approves four more years of orbital experiments.

Among NanoRacks’ customers: Three New York fifth graders who created an experiment on fish-egg development that arrived on the station in 2011.

Now Even Kids Can Afford to Use the Space Station

A new company makes it easier to get your payloads to orbit.

A Jolly Transit

An astrophysics student recorded a strange dip in luminosity

A night-time view from the International Space Station.

An Astronaut’s View of Earth Could Change Us All

The "overview effect" profoundly changes the way space travelers view our planet. How can everyone experience it?

None

Comet ISON Will Likely Stick Together for Trip Around Sun

New Hubble pictures show that rumors of a breakup are premature

But Will it Fly?

Red Bull expands its wacky Flugtag competition to five cities this year.

None

New Moon for Neptune

A SETI astronomer finds a never-before-seen solar system neighbor

Page 3 of 6