Editors' Picks
About Those Space Joyrides…
The first suborbital tourists will spend up to $200,000 for a few precious minutes of weightlessness. How many minutes will they get?
The Other Air Forces
Humorist Bruce McCall's small fleet of little-known aircraft.
Design by Rutan
A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art.
Space 2012: What’s Ahead
Twelve things to watch for in space next year—if the world doesn’t end.
The Kids Are Trying to Crash
Remote-control models face off in the Extreme Flight Championships.
The Daily Planet Blog
Like a Seabee on a Diet…
Let's hope Icon's A5 fares better in the marketplace.
February 21, 2012
| By Pat Trenner
Letters To Earth Blog
Jelly on Both Sides
In space, you can't beat the odds, but you can make a better sandwich.
February 17, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Letters To Earth Blog
Leonardo’s Closet
The PMM is part storage closet, part trash can, and a good place to reflect and recharge.
February 15, 2012
| By Don Pettit
The Daily Planet Blog
K-MAX at Work
A few months into testing, the new cargo helo seems to be performing well.
February 15, 2012
| By Heather Goss
The Daily Planet Blog
Radio Flyer
In 1957, the Narco Superhomer was The Great New Thing.
February 14, 2012
| By George Larson
The Daily Planet Blog
Light Launch
Europe has a brand new rocket.
February 13, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Once and Future Moon Blog
Cataclysmic Conundrum
Is there a way to determine if the Moon underwent an impact cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago? Samples from an old basin may tell us.
February 13, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
The Daily Planet Blog
Scaling the Universe
The Known Universe is a 21st-century upgrade to our visualization of the sheer size of things.
February 10, 2012
| By Heather Goss
The Daily Planet Blog
The End of the Plain Plane
When wild liveries and outrageous uniforms were the norm.
February 09, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Letters To Earth Blog
Dance of the Droplets
Weird physics on the space station.
February 08, 2012
| By Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine
The Daily Planet Blog
416 MPH
Not all speed records look fast on video, but this one does.
February 06, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
Hardest to Fly?
Piloting an Apache helicopter almost always meant both hands and feet doing four different things at once.
February 03, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Daily Planet Blog
Moonset in Space
Here's something you can only see in Earth orbit.
February 02, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Letters To Earth Blog
A Lab for Science, and for Thinking
Shifts in thought and perspective, some seemingly minor, happen when you observe the commonplace in a new and unfamiliar setting.
February 01, 2012
| By Don Pettit
The Daily Planet Blog
Clickable Space Exploration
A handy interactive map shows what lies ahead in space over the next decade.
February 01, 2012
| By Heather Goss
The Daily Planet Blog
High-Speed Helicopters Come of Age
By adding a little push, compound helicopters push the speed limit up to 300 mph.
January 30, 2012
| By George Larson
Letters To Earth Blog
The World Through a Looking Glass
From orbit, the more you know about our planet, the more you can see.
January 27, 2012
| By Don Pettit
The Daily Planet Blog
Shhh, We’re Hunting Asteroids
DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope is seeking out potentially Earth-threatening asteroids.
January 27, 2012
| By Heather Goss
The Daily Planet Blog
Sunstorm? Been There, Done That
Solar tantrums of 1859, 1921, and 1989.
January 26, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Daily Planet Blog
DARPA ISO UAV
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying out innovation the 21st century way: crowdsourcing.
January 25, 2012
| By Heather Goss
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