Air & Space Magazine: November 2008
Articles
Fly Us to the Moon
The next lunar explorers will soon report to Houston. Are some already there?
Airliner Repair, 24/7
Boeing's traveling fix-it team has one goal: Get it airborne.
Top NASA Photos of All Time
50 indelible images from the first 50 years of spaceflight
Restoration: The Memphis Belle
For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part.
Accidental Classic
From the designers who brought you the P-51 Mustang, an airplane with a complicated past…and a controversial present.
How Things Work: The Ouija Board
Think of a shipboard chess game with airplanes instead of pawns.
Toy Story
How tossing paper airplanes guided the career of an aerospace engineer.
If I Were to Land on Mars...
A small malfunction lands three astronauts on Russia’s version of the Red Planet.
The Last to Die
The war in the Pacific ended as it began, with a surprise attack by Japanese warplanes.
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Snapshot
Window Seat
Atlantis, the ultimate glass-bottom boat.
Reader Scrapbook
Send In Your Photos
Check out our scrapbook of readers' aviation and space pictures. Then add your own.
Need to Know
What determines an airplane’s lifespan?
Some keep flying for decades, while others end up on the scrap heap.
