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.
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
Is space travel more like aviation or sea faring? It depends on your mission.
April 13, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
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