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Area 51: Origins

America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.

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Airplanes with a mission: Fly faster.

Beyond the Moon

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The Invention of Flight

Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.

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Lost In Space

Microgravity's mysterious side effect: Stuff disappears
September 2010 | By Tom Jones

MESSENGER last year revealed another side of Mercury, color-enhanced to show the differences in surface geology.

Then and Now: Mercury Unmasked

September 2010 | By Paul Hoversten

A&S Interview: Avi Loeb

On the origin of galaxies.
September 2010 | By Linda Shiner

Astronomy's To Do List

Every ten years or so, the nation's astronomers put their heads (actually committees) together to come up with a collective wish list for the projects they'd like to see funded over the next decade. Politicians tend to like this method of setting scientific priorities, as it saves them from choosin...
August 13, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

Looking up: Joshua Camp (left) and Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero.

One Ring Zero Does the Planets, Their Way

Lit-rock meets Holst.
August 11, 2010 | By Jeff Campagna

He May Be a Smart Physicist, But...

Here's Stephen Hawking, commenting on humanity’s future: ...Our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only c...
August 11, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

Nobody knows ….. how dry I am

The never-ending saga of water on the Moon continues apace.  In the latest revelation, it is now claimed that the Moon is indeed “dry” after all and never had much water  (this new finding is only in regard to endogenous lunar water contained inside the Moon, not to water that has been or is being ...
August 07, 2010 | By Paul D. Spudis

The Air Force in 2030

Forecasting technology is a notoriously tricky business. In spite of all the predictions, we still don't have fusion power or flying cars, but in 2010 you can kick around a virtual soccer ball using a handheld camera phone, and who saw that coming?It's the job of the Air Force Chief Scientist and h...
July 30, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

NASA's Next Mars Rover

The Curiosity rover, scheduled for launch to Mars next year, took its first test drive last week.
July 30, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Most Well-Traveled Nobel in the Universe

On May 14, 2010, when the Space Shuttle Atlantis left for the International Space Station (ISS) on its 32nd and final flight, it carried some typical items on board: the Russian mini-research module (which provided a new docking port and storage space for the ISS), and a cargo carrier filled with s...
July 27, 2010 | By Rebecca Maksel

The Moon, Asteroids, and Space Resources

By abandoning the Moon, the administration’s proposed space policy has left the space community with a huge question mark over the important issue of learning how to harvest and use space resources.  Clearly if we don’t go to the Moon with people or machines, there is no way to use the abundant wat...
July 23, 2010 | By Paul D. Spudis

Asteroid Trackers

Scientists are keeping tabs on an asteroid called Apophis, an 820-foot chunk of rock moseying toward Earth at about 22 miles per second. Apophis—named after an ancient Egyptian god of evil, naturally—will pass near our planet in 2029. How near is near? Closer than our own communication satellites.B...
July 21, 2010 | By Rebecca Maksel

Live From the Moon!

The picture may have been grainy, but it was some of the most riveting TV of the 1960s.
July 19, 2010 | By Mary McKillop

SpaceShipTwo Gets a Pilot

Some nice scenes here of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (now known as VSS Enterprise) on a recent captive carry flight—with a pilot (Peter Siebold) onboard for the first time.
July 20, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

Technology Seeding

There's a philosophical war going on in space policy circles these days, between those who believe that grand, ambitious missions drive invention (Apollo), and those who believe it's the other way around (DARPA).Honestly, I think either approach can work, given wise management. But NASA's new direc...
July 15, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

A&S Interview: Story Musgrave

The veteran astronaut is the only person to fly on all five space shuttle orbiters.
August 2010 | By Diane Tedeschi

The space shuttle’s cargo bay is more than just a shipping container. It’s also a workspace for spacewalkers.

The Truck

Satellites, experiments, space station parts - the space shuttle hauled it all.
August 2010 | By Paul Hoversten

The DC-X backs into its parking spot at White Sands in September 1993.

Black Day at White Sands

What goes up, must come down. In the Delta Clipper's case, really hard.
August 2010 | By Preston Lerner

NASA’s New Mission and the Cult of Management

During a recent interview on Al Jazeera television, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden outlined NASA’s new priorities.  His remarks became headlines as the previously ignored story about the redirection of the space agency toward international diplomatic outreach and global climate change research f...
July 10, 2010 | By Paul D. Spudis

Scenes From Star City

With more NASA astronauts Twittering and YouTubing these days, you can get all kinds of insider views of the spacefarer's life if you're willing to rummage around the Web a bit. Scott Kelly is training for a space station tour beginning in September, and over the last year has posted video scenes ...
July 08, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

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