Editors' Picks
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.
In the 1950s, balloons carried live mice to near-space to study how the trip might affect astronauts.
January 11, 2013
| By Heather Goss
Unlikely soldiers during World War II: More than 250,000 pigeons deployed by the British.
December 18, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Navy’s unmanned combat aircraft makes a historic takeoff, and prepares for carrier trials at sea.
December 06, 2012
| By John M. Doyle
The first catapult launch of an unmanned combat aircraft -- and more milestones to come.
November 30, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Why does the solitary night fighter call out for a nickname?
November 29, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
In 1948, Idaho decided the best way to move beavers was to airdrop them.
November 26, 2012
| By Heather Goss
Find yourself in a hostile environment? The Air Force knows what to do.
November 19, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Sikorsky HO5S-1 made its name flying medevac missions in Korea.
January 2013
| By Rebecca Maksel
The pilots and fans dedicated to prolonging the stardom of the Beech 18.
January 2013
| By David Freed
Driving a drone is (apparently) nothing like playing World of Warcraft.
November 15, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
From a Navy Reserve pilot’s letters home, a picture of the darkest days of the Korean War
January 2013
| By David Sears
Felix Baumgartner and his Red Bull team set a date for the Big Leap.
September 25, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Flying fast and low over Castro’s Cuba.
September 18, 2012
| By Paul Hoversten
A Marine Corps pilot flies CASEVAC missions in Iraq.
September 2012
| By Rocky Checca
Low-level aerial photos confirmed that Soviet nuclear missiles were in Cuba in 1962.
September 18, 2012
| By Roger Mola
Fifty years later, Cubans remember preparing to fight the Americans.
November 2012
| By Rafael Lima
One reason more soldiers are making it home alive.
November 2012
| By Michael Klesius
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