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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.
On Space Station every hour is accounted for, and hardly a minute is wasted. Here's how my day is divided.
June 22, 2012
| By Don Pettit
A Space Station group portrait, taken in thermal infrared.
June 19, 2012
| By Don Pettit
If you want good pictures in space, make it as dark as you can.
June 18, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Here's what we left inside the SpaceX Dragon capsule before we closed the hatch last month.
June 14, 2012
| By Don Pettit
The Southern California birthplace of the space shuttle is going to spit-shine and welcome visitors to see a piece of nearly forgotten aerospace history.
June 14, 2012
| By Heather Goss
The purpose of art is to soothe the soul, but sometimes it can predict future realities with uncanny precision.
June 14, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
China's first manned space station mission comes to a successful end.
June 13, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Inside a warehouse in Downey, California, a one-winged space shuttle sits underneath a blanket of Tyvek sheeting.
June 12, 2012
| By Heather Goss
As you can see in this video, right now we are in a phase of continuous twilight.
June 08, 2012
| By Don Pettit
They were bound for the moon, but he had already been to Mars.
June 06, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Our international space partners want to go to the Moon. Why don't we?
Well, maybe we do.
June 05, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
Wanted: an airborne system than can launch 100-pound satellites for under $1 million.
June 04, 2012
| By Heather Goss
A recent news story claims that water was found in lunar soil over 30 years ago, but the finding was ignored. True?
June 01, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
With Dragon showing the way, it's about to get busy in the commercial spaceflight arena.
June 01, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Are ice crystals different in microgravity? I had a look.
May 30, 2012
| By Don Pettit
When you drive to your local observatory to witness the Transit of Venus on Tuesday, spare a thought for the men who sought to witness the spectacle in 1761.
May 29, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Don Pettit turns his curiosity—and his camera—loose on board the International Space Station.
May 23, 2012
| By The Editors
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