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What the astronauts really said

Apollo "onboard voice" recordings captured the moon astronauts' conversations -- cussing and all -- when no one else was listening.

Drones for Hire

The newest eyes in the sky are drawing the attention of power companies, conservation groups, and the ACLU.

Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission

So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.

The Invention of Flight

Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.

Disaster at Xichang

An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history’s worst launch accident.

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A true story with an O.Henry ending.
May 2009 | By Mark Huber

Major Dan Cherry (right) and Lieutenant Hong My, in Vietnam last year.

Dan Cherry and Hong My met in the skies over North Vietnam in 1972, then again 36 years later.
May 2009 | By Dan Cherry

Aerospatiale's Concorde made its maiden flight 40 years ago this week, a half-hour hop out of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport on March 2, 1969.What heady days those were for aviation and space. Not a month earlier, the Boeing 747 had made its first flight. And a month and a half prior to that, the Saturn ...
March 05, 2009 | By Mike Klesius

Wondering who wrote the first description of flying over a landscape, I came across this charming passage by Jacques Charles, French scientist and inventor of the hydrogen balloon. Charles wasn't the first to fly—that honor goes to Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, who fle...
March 04, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Charles Bronson starred. The Pentagon had a few minor corrections.
August 2007 | By airspacemag.com

Songs inspired by the early age of flight.
February 19, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

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

A top Soviet-era test pilot talks about his favorite MiGs and his friend Yuri Gagarin.
January 22, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

A worker does a final paint touchup before the Gee Bee

A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.
March 2009 | By ROBERT BERNIER

Canadian newspapers trumpeted the glories of the Avro C102 Jetliner, which made its first flight in 1949 at Malton Airport in Toronto.

The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.
March 2009 | By Graham Chandler

There's more than one way to dump extra fuel before landing.
March 2009 | By Lieutenant Colonel Alfred (Joe) D’Amario, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

Briefcase in hand, a passenger weighs in at London’s Croydon Aerodrome before a flight to Scotland in 1934. The checks were necessary to ensure the airplane wasn’t too heavy for takeoff.

February 2009 | By Roger A. Mola

Craig Breedlove

A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.
March 2009 | By Preston Lerner

Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation
January 12, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

The winner of the first Schneider Trophy race was France with a Deperdussin. The replica can float; the original won the race in 1913 with a speed of about 46 mph.

A visit to the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California is a tour through the history of air racing.
March 01, 2008 | By Linda Shiner

Jeff Ethell's Pireps
January 1995 | By Jeff Ethell

The Convair B-36A in flight.

It was the biggest warplane ever to wear an American star, and in the summer of '49 the Peacemaker found itself a war--in Washington.
April 1996 | By Daniel Ford

Airplanes, not automobiles, cruised the Malecon on parade day in 1953 to mark the 40th anniversary of Parla

Did Cuba abandon its private pilots or did they abandon Cuba?
August 2007 | By Rafael Lima

Aviation can sometimes be downright inhuman.
November 20, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

A brief history of airline passenger seats
January 2009 | By Perry Turner

January 2009 | By J.R. Dailey

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