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.
Sending Apollo 8 to the moon was a risky mix of cold war politics, bravery, and the faith of one man, George Low, in his engineers.
December 19, 2008
| By Michael Klesius
There’s a huge hubbub in the press revolving around alleged “obstructionism” at NASA toward the Presidential Transition team. As this rather overwrought piece at the Orlando Sentinel has been posted and commented upon endlessly at several web sites, I do not propose to rehash it. Instead, I want ...
December 12, 2008
| By Paul D. Spudis
The Space Shuttle Endeavour safely landed at Edwards yesterday, completing a highly successful 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which celebrated a decade of continuous operation last week. It’s common in my business of planetary science to complain about the ISS, how it suc...
December 01, 2008
| By Paul D. Spudis
Red Whittaker’s rovers have already gone where no robot has gone before. Will one of them make it to the moon?
January 2009
| By Geoffrey Little
If you really want to know the planet, flip through Mike Malin’s photo album.
January 2009
| By Andrew Chaikin
Considerable buzz was generated in space circles last week when The Planetary Society, the keepers of Carl Sagan’s flame, released a report that recommended a re-orientation of the Vision for Space Exploration. This report was based in part on the results of an invitation-only workshop held at Sta...
November 18, 2008
| By Paul D. Spudis
Mars’ foremost photographers pick their favorite images of their favorite planet.
November 18, 2008
| By airspacemag.com
I am in Bangalore, sitting awake in my hotel room at 4 am. Last night was a memorable and exciting experience. Chandrayaan-1, in lunar orbit since last Saturday, released its Moon Impact Probe (MIP), designed to descend and hit the Moon at high velocity, sending images and other data as it went. ...
November 15, 2008
| By Paul D. Spudis
The editors of Air & Space magazine have asked me to continue blogging on lunar exploration, the space program in general, and the relationship of both to broader society. I am happy to do so. This is my first post on the new blog, “The Once and Future Moon.”A brief word about that name. Peo...
November 09, 2008
| By Paul D. Spudis
Three more people will soon move into the International Space Station—and they’ll be drinking, um….
October 30, 2008
| By Michael Klesius
A U.S. scientist reports from the scene of India's first lunar launch.
October 21, 2008
| By Paul D. Spudis
At the start of a new partnership, U.S. and Russian space travelers learn that every long journey begins with a single step.
October 2008
| By Tom Harpole
Meet the MOL-men. Prepared to make space history, these military pilots instead became a footnote to it.
July 1998
| By Carl Posey
A small band of rogue rocketeers takes on the NASA establishment.
September 29, 2008
| By Michael Klesius
In 2003, China's first astronaut stepped out of his space capsule and into the limelight.
March 2007
| By James R. Hansen
Chinese astronauts are preparing for their first spacewalk. What's in store for them?
September 18, 2008
| By Leroy Chiao
Urban nightscapes are among the most beautiful sights in orbit.
September 16, 2008
| By Don Pettit
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