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Google Maps' latest update will help travelers navigate through airports.
November 30, 2011 | By Heather Goss

Is This the First In-Space Portrait?

A photo of astronaut Ed White, taken aboard Gemini IV, may be the first photo of an astronaut taken by another inside a spacecraft.
November 30, 2011 | By Heather Goss

Where Were You?

In this 50th anniversary year of human spaceflight, we ask you to remember your own space milestones, and record where you were, and how you felt.
November 22, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Getting Medieval

When the Eighth Air Force wanted to protect its bomber crews, it asked medieval armor specialists for advice.
November 21, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Mind if I Smoke?

Remember when passengers used to toss lit cigarettes out the airplane window? Honest.
November 17, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Slopes, Streaks and Flows

Dark streaks occur on slopes on both the Moon and Mars, although interpretations about their origins may differ. The Moon offers us some insight into how these features can form on all of the terrestrial planets.
November 17, 2011 | By Paul D. Spudis

Earth Views, The Remix

Because we can't get enough of this stuff.
November 15, 2011 | By Tony Reichhardt

Catch-22 At Fifty

Writer Joseph Heller drew on his own wartime experience for his 1961 masterpiece.
November 11, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Gremlin On the Wing

How do you define the fear of flying? Scientists think it might be the sum of other fears.
November 09, 2011 | By Heather Goss

Unmanned Helos Headed For Afghanistan

Troops in Afghanistan should start receiving supplies from the new K-MAX unmanned helicopters for the first time this month.
November 08, 2011 | By Heather Goss

Stay Tuned

A new emergency warning system will be tested on Wednesday -- 60 years after another radio network warned Americans of Cold War air raids.
November 07, 2011 | By Roger Mola

SpaceShipTwo: The Story So Far

Progress on the path to suborbital tourism.
November 03, 2011 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Warbird Woodstock

A new book highlights the final Gathering of Mustangs in 2007.
November 02, 2011 | By Pat Trenner

Shenzhou 8 Docks In Orbit

China succeeds on its first space rendezvous and docking mission.
November 01, 2011 | By Tony Reichhardt

Airman George Johnson (in a T-33 in late 1955) spent hundreds of hours maintaining Sabrejets and much less time flying one.

Mind If I Borrow It?

The day an Air Force mechanic commandeered a North American F-86.
November 2011 | By Paul D. Mather

When a Super Cub ran out of fuel and had to land on uninhabited Kayak lsland in Alaska last May, the pilot and passenger tried both low- and high-tech alerts. In addition to the “SOS,” they activated a SPOT beacon, and were rescued by the Coast Guard.

Lost in America

Airplanes that go missing are often untraceable. Why is effective tracking technology being ignored?
November 2011 | By Michael Behar

Leo Windecker’s proof-of- concept Fibaloy aircraft used fixed landing gear and aluminum control surfaces to cut down on development time and costs.

Just One Word: Plastics

The world's first all-composite airplane may fly again.
November 2011 | By Stephen Joiner

Tata (circa 1960) wrote copious memos to his staff about everything from inflight coffee (“it tasted like bean soup”) to crew hairstyles (one stewardess “had an enormous hair bun at the back, larger than her whole head. She looked ridiculous”).

Karachi to Bombay to Calcutta

The struggle to start Air-India.
November 2011 | By David Shaftel

A 2010 flight of two F-15Es (here, a Strike Eagle in Afghanistan earlier this year) saved the lives of 30 coalition troops surrounded by 100 insurgents.

Moments & Milestones: Trophy Mission

Honors for a risky bombing run.
November 2011 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

With telescopes both inside and out, Museum educators use a variety of filters to show visitors spots on the sun, craters on the moon, and the phases of Venus.

In the Museum: The People’s Observatory

Bringing telescopes where the people are.
November 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel


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