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Air & Space for the iPad
Our June/July issue is the first produced for the tablet.
June 17, 2013 |
By Linda Shiner
50 Years After Tereshkova
Russia's first woman cosmonaut, and its next.
June 14, 2013 |
By Tony Reichhardt
The Flight of Shenzhou-10
Updates on China's final mission to the Tiangong-1 space station.
June 10, 2013 |
By Tony Reichhardt
The Astronaut Wives Club
Dishy gossip from a new book about the wives of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts.
June 07, 2013 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Can’t You Just Move the Space Station?
When a science team asked to move the ISS for one of their experiments, they had to get five nations to agree on the engineering, timing, and risks.
June 04, 2013 |
By Rebecca Boyle
Alaska and the Airplane
For a century, each has shaped the other.
June 2013 |
By Julie Decker and Jeremy Kinney
When Republic Aviation Folded
A historian rescued a lone document from the company’s files.
June 2013 |
By Joshua Stoff
Alaska’s Crash Epidemic
How technology and an FAA regional office ended it.
June 2013 |
By Greg Freiherr
Panthers At Sea
U.S. Navy Panthers weren’t highly evolved, but they could shoot. And they were air conditioned.
June 2013 |
By David Noland
Where Have All the Shuttle Engineers Gone?
To new jobs, some odder than others.
June 2013 |
By Jeremy Davis
Earth-Like Planets Could be Right Next Door
Astronomers estimate that billions of habitable planets are orbiting red dwarf stars. What would it be like to live there?
June 2013 |
By Bruce Lieberman
The Astronaut’s Wife
Jan Evans recalls how it was for the families of moon voyagers in the Apollo era.
June 2013 |
By Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
The Pilots of Mount McKinley
For 50 years, the world has reached the mountain on airplanes from one small town.
June 2013 |
By Larry Lowe
Paint it White
How a simple change in color scheme helped RAF bombers defeat Hitler's U-boats.
May 31, 2013 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Alien Minerals Found in Lunar Crater – Film at Eleven!
Computer models in science can be useful -- until you start believing in them.
May 29, 2013 |
By Paul D. Spudis
Driving the Space Shuttle
How a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A.
May 21, 2013 |
By Heather Goss
Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet”
New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon.
May 14, 2013 |
By Paul D. Spudis
