Editors' Picks
Printed in Space
If your star tracker breaks on the way to the moon, just hit Command P.
Area 51: Origins
America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.
Need for Speed
Airplanes with a mission: Fly faster.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Vietnam Memoir
Stories from the war that shaped a generation.
On Air Blog
The Squeeze
Aviation capacity may look like it's growing, but really, it's just getting sliced thinner.
June 18, 2013
| By George Larson
The Daily Planet Blog
Air & Space for the iPad
Our June/July issue is the first produced for the tablet.
June 17, 2013
| By Linda Shiner
The Daily Planet Blog
50 Years After Tereshkova
Russia's first woman cosmonaut, and its next.
June 14, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
The Flight of Shenzhou-10
Updates on China's final mission to the Tiangong-1 space station.
June 10, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
The Astronaut Wives Club
Dishy gossip from a new book about the wives of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts.
June 07, 2013
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Daily Planet Blog
Thought-Controlled Drones and Pizzacopters
The Domino's delivery guy of the future may wear electrodes on his head.
June 05, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
Can’t You Just Move the Space Station?
When a science team asked to move the ISS for one of their experiments, they had to get five nations to agree on the engineering, timing, and risks.
June 04, 2013
| By Rebecca Boyle
The Daily Planet Blog
Paint it White
How a simple change in color scheme helped RAF bombers defeat Hitler's U-boats.
May 31, 2013
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Once and Future Moon Blog
Alien Minerals Found in Lunar Crater – Film at Eleven!
Computer models in science can be useful -- until you start believing in them.
May 29, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
Air Recon Blog
Germany Gets Prettier
The last A-10 "Warthog" permanently stationed in Europe recently packed up and flew home.
May 21, 2013
| By John Sotham
Air Recon Blog
A New Dawn, Partially Realized
In 1969, Pan Am was promising both the jumbo jet and the SST. In the end, we only got one of them.
May 17, 2013
| By John Sotham
The Daily Planet Blog
Unmanned X-47B Launches from a Carrier
For the first time in history, a combat aircraft with no pilot onboard took off from an aircraft carrier at sea.
May 14, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Once and Future Moon Blog
Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet”
New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon.
May 14, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
The Daily Planet Blog
Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity
Somebody had to do it.
May 13, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
Lockheed’s Mom
Flora Haines Loughead was a journalist, farmer, miner, and mother to two pioneers of the aviation history.
May 10, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
Crowdsourcing Mars
Space exploration and the limits of charity.
May 09, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
The X-51 Ends on a High Note
The Waverider soars, thanks to the longest scramjet burn ever.
May 08, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
Air Recon Blog
In the Age of Stratojets
A former B-47 crew chief looks back at one of the great airplanes of the 20th century.
April 30, 2013
| By John Sotham
The Daily Planet Blog
Joe Sutter and the Rough Riders
The Father of the 747 takes his inspiration from Teddy Roosevelt.
May 03, 2013
| By Linda Shiner
On Air Blog
Raiding the Trust Fund
To keep from laying off Air Traffic Controllers, Congress grabbed money intended to improve airport safety.
May 03, 2013
| By George Larson
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