Editors' Picks
About Those Space Joyrides…
The first suborbital tourists will spend up to $200,000 for a few precious minutes of weightlessness. How many minutes will they get?
The Other Air Forces
Humorist Bruce McCall's small fleet of little-known aircraft.
Design by Rutan
A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art.
Space 2012: What’s Ahead
Twelve things to watch for in space next year—if the world doesn’t end.
The Kids Are Trying to Crash
Remote-control models face off in the Extreme Flight Championships.
Dance of the Droplets
Weird physics on the space station.
February 08, 2012
| By Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine
Here's something you can only see in Earth orbit.
February 02, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Shifts in thought and perspective, some seemingly minor, happen when you observe the commonplace in a new and unfamiliar setting.
February 01, 2012
| By Don Pettit
A handy interactive map shows what lies ahead in space over the next decade.
February 01, 2012
| By Heather Goss
From orbit, the more you know about our planet, the more you can see.
January 27, 2012
| By Don Pettit
DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope is seeking out potentially Earth-threatening asteroids.
January 27, 2012
| By Heather Goss
Solar tantrums of 1859, 1921, and 1989.
January 26, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
How do you clean out your electric razor in zero-G? Carefully.
January 25, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Prizes for specific accomplishments have been proposed as the solution to the problem of a moribund space program. Are they?
January 25, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
Sometimes it looks as though the Earth is watching us.
January 24, 2012
| By Don Pettit
There is one, surprisingly—but you can't sense it directly.
January 23, 2012
| By Don Pettit
A welcome-home party for what was left of a space station.
March 2012
| By Scott N. Gaines
The atmosphere on edge glows with a vibrant electric blue. Did van Gogh paint this scene?
January 19, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Velcro helps us keep things from floating away at dinner time. Or so I thought.
January 18, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Scientists offer a mesmerizing visual of the matter that makes up, well, everything.
January 17, 2012
| By Heather Goss
If you're planning an off-world vacation, there's only one name to call: Eric Anderson
March 2012
| By Michael Belfiore
The space station's finished. Now what?
March 2012
| By Guy Gugliotta
China plans to send humans to the Moon. Why we should care.
January 14, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
Sometimes your brain can play little tricks. Under some lighting conditions the Grand Canyon does not look like a canyon at all.
January 13, 2012
| By Don Pettit
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