• 50th Anniversary of NASA

Top NASA Photos of All Time

50 indelible images from the first 50 years of spaceflight

Video

Armstrong’s Close Call

A fiery bailout while training to land on the moon.

The First Lunar Landing

One of history's great voyages, captured on 16mm film.

Mercury Astronauts Meet the Press, 1959

...and answer the question: "What was your least favorite test?"

Marines Test the Joint Strike Fighter

A Marine takes the new F-35 for a spin.

Dodging Missiles

Dodging Missiles

F-105 pilots recall the dangers of flying over North Vietnam.

F-105 Walkaround

F-105 Walkaround

Get a close look at the National Air and Space Museum’s Thunderchief.

Ranger 9’s Last Moments

A lunar kamikaze’s final plunge, caught on video in 1965

Max Q’s First Gig

The all-astronaut band, in its premiere performance in 1987

Inside a B-2 Bomber

A 360-degree panorama taken inside the flight deck of a B-2 bomber.

Aviation Training in the United States, 1917-18

Rare footage of Army pilots learning to fly Jennies during World War I.

Featured Articles

Oldies and Oddities: The Bonneville Jet Wars

A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.

Photo Essay: The Red Album

Mars’ foremost photographers pick their favorite images of their favorite planet.

Photography

Cities at Night: An Astronaut’s View

Urban nightscapes are among the most beautiful sights in orbit.

Cities From the Sky

Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation

Fly Now!

Airmail posters of the 1920s and 1930s

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In the Magazine

July 2009

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Snapshot

Red, White, and Blue

Times two, for the 4th.

Reader Scrapbook

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Check out our scrapbook of readers' aviation and space pictures. Then add your own.