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The powdery lunar soil was great for making footprints, but was a problem for astronauts like Charlie Duke, shown here during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. It got in their eyes and throats, and clung stubbornly to every surface.

Stronger Than Dirt

Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy—dust.
September 2006 | By Trudy E. Bell

Orbital platforms can bolster or challenge global climate change theories. Satellites have confirmed a 500,000- square-mile reduction of Arctic Sea ice since 1979.

Keep Watching the Ice

Meet the satellites bringing data to the discussion of global warming
September 2006 | By Ben Iannotta

Flameout

Why the fire in a perfectly healthy jet engine can die.
September 2006 | By Peter Garrison

Norman Rockwell's Ghost

The most artistic collaboration of the entire Apollo program.
September 2006 | By Pierre Mion

Feathers ruffled, a "Turkey" rests on the deck of the Harry S. Truman while a Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk hoists in supplies for the carrier population.

Tomcat Tribute

The Navy's fearsome fighter retires.
September 2006 | By The Editors

Swing Wings

It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).
September 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Iranian F-14 pilots were part of an air force that endured 12-hour combat air patrols, a brutal regime, and a ruthless enemy.

Persian Cats

How Iranian air crews, cut off from U.S. technical support, used the F-14 against Iraqi attackers.
September 2006 | By Tom Cooper

The Grumman Cats

Just under nine lives that created a company legend.
September 2006 | By Brian Nicklas

Star Quality

How did we love the Tomcat? On the 20th anniversary of Top Gun, we count the ways.
September 2006 | By The Editors

Drama in the Cockpit

The last words of doomed airline crews make for riveting theater.
September 2006 | By Patricia Trenner

Celebrating the RCCA

Fight Club

Model airplanes battle each other for dominance and acclaim.
September 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Tales of the F-14

More recollections of the fabled fighter.
September 2006 | By airspacemag.com

The eight survivors: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Pluto's Planethood: What Now?

Two leading scientific experts debate whether eight is enough.
September 2006 | By airspacemag.com

Cassini views Enceladus in July 2005.

Mission to Enceladus

NASA summer students plot a course for Saturn's mysterious ice world.
September 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

DoD photo by Master Sgt. Keith Baxter, USAF

The Raptor Rocks

F-22s treat airshow fans to a maneuverability demo.
September 2006 | By Linda Shiner

The roof of the building chosen to host El Paso

Show Me the Way to Go Home

Long before the Global Positioning System, pilots got from town to town by reading rooftops.
September 2006 | By Roger A. Mola

Sixty-five years ago, the island was burning during a two-hour aerial assault that drew the United States into World War II.

Where the War Began

A new aviation museum preserves Pearl Harbor's past.
September 2006 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

In the Museum: Lindbergh for Sale

Stanley King's memorabilia collection.
September 2006 | By Diane Tedeschi

Radio-controlled models rest between rounds.

Radio Clash

Do model airplanes ever fight each other?
September 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Grissom

Home on the Plains

Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule settles down in Kansas.
September 2006 | By Paul Hoversten


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