Lost, then found, during the second world war, the Ace of Aces gave war-weary Americans something to cheer about.
The latest X-plane, the X-38, is an unmanned prototype of the space station crew's rescue vehicle. The biggest challenge? To get a lifing body to land gently in case injured astronauts are onboard.
Why cosmonauts returning from space face a chilly reception.
Oldies and Oddities: The President’s Plane is Missing
It takes a special breed of climber to attempt to conquer Mt. Everest--and a special breed of helicopter pilot to rescue him.
Fifty years ago, they worked around the clock to keep Berlin from starving. Now, in a year-long celebration, Berlin invites them back.
Part seer, part spy, the financial analyst was at the heart of the aerospace industry's most turbulent ten years.
Behind the International Space Station will be an international mission control. Can planners squelch cross-cultural problems before they arise?
A look at the technological innovations that place the F-22 Raptor at the top of the aviation food chain.
Science and spirituality do not always travel separate roads. The author finds an intersection in some recent cosmology news.
The asteroids are coming! (To a theater near you.)
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Meet the MOL-men. Prepared to make space history, these military pilots instead became a footnote to it.
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A dedicated craftsman explores the invention of the airplane by recreating its predecessors.
How an airplane many thought was ahead of its time instead became a victim of its time
What can the Kuiper Belt objects tell us about the past and future of our planetary neighborhood?
Coming to America: the Russian Mil Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter.
Capitalism in space: it's only human.
When a launch runs amok, the forecast calls for partly cloudy, chance of heavy showers of solid rocket propellant.
During World War II, it was the scene of a pivotal air/sea battle. Now this remote P[acific atoll is girding itself for another invasion.
A group of young companies is reaching for an old dream: cheap--and profitable--access to space.
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