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March 29, 2013 | By Paul Hoversten

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An F-106A Delta Dart aircraft passes over the Mojave Desert while en route to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., where it will be used in the QF-106 drone program. The aircraft, which was the second-to-last F-106 in active service, had been used as a safety chase aircraft in the B-1B aircraft production acceptance flight test program.

March 25, 2013 | By Paul Hoversten

September 05, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

The Shenzhou-9 crew shortly after returning to Earth on June 29, 2012.

July 02, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities on April 8, 2012.

April 12, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

March 28, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

021024-N-4374S-031 Central Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) Oct. 24, 2002 - A Sailor assigned to the "World Watchers� of Fleet Air Recon Squadron One (VQ-1) sprays-down the propeller on a P-3 Orion with a water hose during an aircraft wash on the flight line. VQ-1 is home ported at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., and is currently on deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer�s Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg. (RELEASED)

February 27, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

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A gray-bellied Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 touches down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

August 29, 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

A Northrop YB-49 in flight over desert, probably in the vicinity of Muroc, California.

What ever happened to the YB-49 and the XB-35?
August 16, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

AmSafe

Or is it just meant to make us feel like we're doing something?
August 26, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

glowing thrusters of a Progress spacecraft

The 200-ton orbiting behemoth can get out of harm's way, but not very quickly.
March 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Voyager ends its round-the-world trip in December 1986.

A 20-year mystery solved.
November 01, 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

The U.K.-based Premium Aircraft Interiors Group offers rear-facing seats strictly for economic reasons, and makes no claims about safety.

They may well be. But don't look for them anytime soon.
October 26, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

A row of 737-800s at Boeing Field in Seattle

Some keep flying for decades, while others end up on the scrap heap.
March 01, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

The aurora borealis signals an incoming solar storm.

November 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

The Horten Ho 229 V3 awaits restoration at the National Air and Space Museum

The Horten Ho 229 is on the short list for restoration at the Air and Space Museum.
January 11, 2010 | By Rebecca Maksel

Airliners carry their own portable atmosphere. How much can they afford to lose?

Let's just say it's not like it is in the movies.
September 24, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

The International Space Station

It's all about the solar beta angle.
July 14, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Australia at night, as seen by a military weather satellite. That

And would they have been visible from space?
June 24, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

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