Tony Reichhardt

Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space.

An artist’s rendition of a trans-Neptunian Object imagines the sun in the far, far distance.

Planetoid Detectives

Students and amateur astronomers help the pros track some of the most distant objects in the solar system

The Dream Chaser mini-shuttle, coming in for a landing at Edwards on November 11.

Dream Chaser Sticks the Landing

Sierra Nevada’s mini-space shuttle stays on track for a 2020 launch.

The Ivy Mike test, November 1, 1952. "Mike" stood for "megaton."

The First Hydrogen Bomb

Sixty-five years ago, a test of a fearsome new weapon.

James Bridenstine at today's nomination hearing.

The Frankness of Bridenstine

NASA’s proposed new chief gets grilled about the home planet.

A scene from Access Mars, showing the landscape around Curiosity's position in early October 2017. Gray areas are lower resolution images taken by the navigation cameras. The dashed line indicates where the controller is pointing. Click on any spot, and you're there, at least virtually.

Access Mars Introduces Space Exploration for Everyone

We can’t all go to Mars, but Mars can come to us.

Cosmonauts Shoot First 360 Video of a Spacewalk

Worth watching, but there’s better stuff to come.

Fake moon on a real table, courtesy of the planetARy app.

Augmented Space: The Moon on Your Desk, and Buzz Aldrin Anywhere

AR is about to go big.

Voyager 1, still outbound.

Happy (Late) Birthday, Voyager

A message to humanity's farthest-flung artifact.

Laughing to keep from crying, Peggy Whitson says goodbye to crewmates Thomas Pesquet (back left) and Oleg Novitskiy (back right), with Jack “2Fish” Fisher and Fyodor Yurchikhin by her side.

Comings and Goings in the NASA Family

An emotional sendoff for a space station crew

Pesquet, floating through.

Have Dinner With the Astronauts in This 360 Video

The latest VR footage from the space station.

At Atlas V lifts off from Cape Canaveral in 2010.

Watch an Atlas Rocket Launch in Live 360

This time it’s real-time.

A view from Mission: ISS, the best space-related VR yet.

Space Station VR Experience Released for Oculus Rift

For now you’ll need one of those pricey headsets, but other versions are on the way.

Harrison "Jack" Schmitt on the moon, December 1972 -- one of the last photos taken on the lunar surface. Is it time to go back?

To the Moon in 2026!

A goal for the nation’s 250th birthday?

An artist's conception of a watery surface on TRAPPIST-1f. For now, this is just a guess.

How Venus Could Help Us Understand the New TRAPPIST-1 Planets

And vice versa

Andrei Borisenko filming one of his 360-degree tours of the space station.

Virtual Reality Comes to the Space Station

Oculus Rift arrives, as astronauts and cosmonauts send down their first 360 videos.

A stroll in the woods with ATLAS and Spot.

Surrounded By Robots

A VR field trip inside the Boston Dynamics lab.

Ride along with a Mars rover, or a moon rover. Both trips are possible in VR.

The Year in VR: From Pearl Harbor to the Stratosphere

A sampler of virtual reality air and space experiences that came out in 2016.

John Glenn, dressed for space in his Mercury pressure suit.

John Glenn: A Life in Photos

The passing of an American hero.

Add a few special effects, and a tropical island turns into hell.

Venus, By Way of Hawaii

NASA photographer Bill Ingalls caught this long exposure view of a Soyuz rocket lifting off from Baikonur with half the Expedition 50 crew onboard.

Chinese Astronauts Land on the Same Day That ISS Astronauts Launch

Soyuz up, Shenzhou down.

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