Air & Space Magazine: August 2012
Features
Emissary
Never send a man to do a robot's mission.
By David Freed
If Spirit Had Gone to Disney World
For all its traveling, NASA's last Mars rover only covered about the same ground as a familiar theme park.
By Heather Goss
Invaders From Earth
Will any of these robots win a trip to Mars?
By Leonard David
First Neighborhood on Mars
The creator of The Sims imagines us on the Red Planet.
By Will Wright
Why Mars?
How stories, real and invented, keep pulling us back.
By Robert Crossley
Martians Among Us
In this rowdy assembly, you'll find at least one you know.
By The Editors
Mars Mike
An elder statesman of space exploration wants pieces of Mars brought here.
By Paul Hoversten
Mars Journal
From the people who know Mars best, a collection of close encounters.
By The Editors
Orville, Wilbur and Me
You too can fly a Wright aircraft.
By Phil Scott
Antonovs in America
Where the world’s biggest biplane is under-employed.
By Tom Harpole
Steinbeck’s Dispatches From Vietnam
In 1966, the author of The Grapes of Wrath met a new working class: Hueys, Hercs, and Spooky.
By The Editors
Viewport: New Studies of an Ancient World
By J.R. Dailey
The Archives’ Big Move
Fifty-four truckloads of irreplaceable aviation history make the 35-mile trek to the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.
By Rebecca Maksel
Solar System Detective
As a planetary geologist, I search for clues to what happened on faraway worlds.
By Maria E. Banks
The Original Men in Black?
UFO investigations may have been the least exciting duty for the Air Intelligence Service Squadron.
By Mark Wolverton
The First Autolanding
Two pilots won a trophy in 1937 for keeping their hands off the controls.
By George C. Larson, Member, NAA
