Tony Reichhardt

Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space.

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Across the South Atlantic in 1922

On this day in 1922, a pair of Portuguese aviators, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho, set off on the first flight across the southern Atlantic

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"Dude, you both went 'Whoaaah!' and I was like 'Nooooo!!' "

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time

Muawia Shaddad of the University of Khartoum, Sudan and researcher Peter Jenniskens with students at the scene of a meteorite find in Sudan.

A Rare Space Rock Gets Even Rarer

An extremely uncommon type of asteroid is found in the Nubian Desert

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Remembering an Early G-Man

Earl Wood, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic Aero Medical Unit who pioneered the study of G-forces on pilots in the early jet age, died on March 18

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Dead Bat Tweeting

Combine instant celebrity with cute, furry (though slightly creepy) animals, and you have pretty much the perfect subject for Web 2.0.

The 1st Aero Squadron in Mexico, 1916.

The First U.S. Air Force Mission, 100 Years Ago

In the spring of 1916, a group of Army pilots went after Pancho Villa’s guerillas in Mexico.

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Giving the WASPs their due

The introduction of a bill (S. 614) to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots

A family built for speed: Sean Tucker (standing), with son Eric, wife Colleen, and daughter Tara directly behind him.

Family Formation

The son of famed airshow pilot Sean Tucker follows in his father’s smoke trails.

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Teacher-astronaut? Astronaut-teacher? Does it matter any more?

Should we be surprised that the first “Educator Astronauts” to fly in space won’t actually be teaching lessons from orbit?

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High (really high) cuisine on the space station

Astronaut Sandy Magnus is something of a cook, apparently

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Get your used astronaut eyeglasses here

If collecting space memorabilia is your thing, check out the 2009 April Signature Space Exploration Auction

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Kepler's Unusual Orbit

A couple more interesting things about the just-launched Kepler telescope

Astronaut Walter Schirra during the 11-day Apollo 7 flight in October 1968. Schirra and crewmates Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham suffered flu-like symptoms, which many now believe were due to space sickness.

Sick in Space

It’s not just a problem for astronauts anymore.

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Kepler on deck

Fingers crossed for Friday night’s planned launch of the Kepler telescope to search for Earth-size planets around other stars

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Just keep rolling, just keep rolling

Cue the Lawrence of Arabia theme

A drawing showing the descent of the first manned hydrogen gas balloon flight, which departed from Paris, France on Dec. 1, 1783.

The First Solo Flight

Alone in a hydrogen balloon in 1783.

Bill Suitor takes flight in 1995 wearing the Rocketbelt 2000. Suitor was an experienced rocketbelt pilot, having flown one at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The Rocketbelt Caper

A true tale of invention, obsession, and murder.

Artist's concept of the Titan Saturn System Mission

Your Flight to Titan Is Delayed

We won’t see balloons flying over Saturn’s moon Titan any time soon.

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Two-Timer

Where do you take your next vacation after you’ve been to space? If you’re billionaire Charles Simonyi, you go back.

George Mosolov toured the National Air and Space Museum in 2007.

A Top Soviet-Era Test Pilot

Georgy Mosolov talks about his favorite MiGs and his friend Yuri Gagarin

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