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Can We Repurpose Space Assets?
A lost Russian communications satellite has the potential to teach us about operations on the Moon.
March 19, 2012 |
By Paul D. Spudis
Sikorsky Wants to Pick Your Brain
AND the company will pay you for the privilege.
March 09, 2012 |
By Pat Trenner
How the Mars Community Shot Itself in the Foot
Ask for a lot and perhaps get a little. But ask for too much and you may end up with nothing.
March 08, 2012 |
By Paul D. Spudis
Double the Space Budget?
Neil Tyson wants to double NASA's budget. Would that solve the problem with America's space program?
March 01, 2012 |
By Paul D. Spudis
The Ultimate Fighter?
With the F-35, Lockheed Martin takes a turn trying to make one combat plane that can do everything.
February 2012 |
By Richard Whittle
Flight of the Intruder
Their assignment, 45 years ago: Drop mines over Vietnam, something no jet had ever done.
February 24, 2012 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Weird Water on GJ1214b
Astronomers learn more about a hot, watery, exotic "super-Earth."
February 23, 2012 |
By Heather Goss
Cataclysmic Conundrum
Is there a way to determine if the Moon underwent an impact cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago? Samples from an old basin may tell us.
February 13, 2012 |
By Paul D. Spudis
Hardest to Fly?
Piloting an Apache helicopter almost always meant both hands and feet doing four different things at once.
February 03, 2012 |
By Rebecca Maksel
High-Speed Helicopters Come of Age
By adding a little push, compound helicopters push the speed limit up to 300 mph.
January 30, 2012 |
By George Larson
Everybody has won and all must have prizes
Prizes for specific accomplishments have been proposed as the solution to the problem of a moribund space program. Are they?
January 25, 2012 |
By Paul D. Spudis
Combat on Canvas
Art and artifacts from the Marine front lines, now on display in Washington.
January 24, 2012 |
By Rebecca Maksel
China’s Long March to the Moon
China plans to send humans to the Moon. Why we should care.
January 14, 2012 |
By Paul D. Spudis
About Those Space Joyrides…
The first suborbital tourists will spend up to $200,000 for a few precious minutes of weightlessness. How many minutes will they get?
January 06, 2012 |
By David Warmflash
Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
1 visionary + 3 launchers + 1,500 employees = ?
January 2012 |
By Andrew Chaikin
A Pearl Harbor Mystery
How a 1940s Interstate Cadet trainer sent a famous airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit.
January 2012 |
By John Fleischman
In the Museum: The Original Airliner
The Boeing 247 was the Dreamliner of its day.
January 2012 |
By Rebecca Maksel
The Man My Mother Fell in Love With
When the Navy retired the Tomcat, my father went with it.
January 2012 |
By Brad Hooker
