Air & Space Magazine: November 2008
Articles
Fly Us to the Moon
The next lunar explorers will soon report to Houston. Are some already there?
By Michael Cassutt
Airliner Repair, 24/7
Boeing's traveling fix-it team has one goal: Get it airborne.
By Stephen Joiner
Top NASA Photos of All Time
50 indelible images from the first 50 years of spaceflight
By The Space History Division, National Air and Space Museum
Restoration: The Memphis Belle
For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part.
By Mark Bernstein
Accidental Classic
From the designers who brought you the P-51 Mustang, an airplane with a complicated past…and a controversial present.
By Mark Huber
How Things Work: The Ouija Board
Think of a shipboard chess game with airplanes instead of pawns.
By Mark Wolverton
Toy Story
How tossing paper airplanes guided the career of an aerospace engineer.
By Giles Lambertson
If I Were to Land on Mars...
A small malfunction lands three astronauts on Russia’s version of the Red Planet.
By Don Pettit
The Last to Die
The war in the Pacific ended as it began, with a surprise attack by Japanese warplanes.
By Stephen Harding
Viewport: NASA’s First 50
By J.R. Dailey
In The Museum: The Universe in 5,000 Square Feet
By Michael Klesius
Above & Beyond: The Village of Tempelhof
By CHARLES BRADY
Oldies & Oddities: The Alraigo Incident
By TIM WRIGHT
Then & Now: Wash Day
By Roger A. Mola
Moments & Milestones: The First “A” in NASA
By GEORGE C. LARSON, MEMBER, NAA
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Send In Your PhotosCheck out our scrapbook of readers' aviation and space pictures. Then add your own. |
Need to Know
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Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?And would they have been visible from space? |
