Editors' Picks
Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
1 visionary + 3 launchers + 1,500 employees = ?
The Spirit of Santa Monica
Between 1920 and 1975, Donald Douglas’ company—and a southern California city—helped shape aviation history.
Killer at 70,000 Feet
The occupational hazards of flying the U-2.
The Weird World of Folk Aviators
With his whimsical sculptures, Gregory Bryant celebrates early ideas about winged flight.
High Spy: The Amazing U-2
Still keeping watch after more than 50 years.
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If you want to know what crew I'm on, be prepared for a long conversation.
May 16, 2012
| By Don Pettit
If things go according to plan Saturday, the world will witness SpaceX launch its first Dragon cargo supply mission to the International Space Station.
May 15, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
These Pentagon mavericks want to launch spacecraft within a week of taking the order. Wish them luck.
July 2012
| By Todd Neff
Discovery takes a victory lap before settling in at the National Air and Space Museum.
July 2012
| By J.R. Dailey
Winners take home big prizes (and compete to be the next generation of aerospace leadership) in the Team America Rocketry Challenge.
May 11, 2012
| By Heather Goss
Playing with sound waves and a drop of water in microgravity.
May 08, 2012
| By Don Pettit
To buy a piece of space history, you need plenty of cash.
May 03, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The energy now stored in my body is seven times greater than what would be in an 80- kilogram pile of TNT.
May 02, 2012
| By Don Pettit
A new book recounts (sort of) the difficult restoration of a deteriorating Saturn V.
May 01, 2012
| By Heather Goss
The legal status and ownership of resources harvested from space are unclear. How does such uncertainty affect our plans to exploit them?
May 01, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
When something breaks on a spacecraft, you have to get your hands dirty.
April 27, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Two space shuttles parked nose-to-nose today; one leaving its museum home and the other ready to take its place.
April 19, 2012
| By Heather Goss
On the frontier, you can once again see the world through the eyes of a child.
April 13, 2012
| By Don Pettit
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