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The aviators, scientists, engineers and astronauts who have shaped the story of air and space flightDiscover Air & Space articles about the people who have shaped the history of flight – and those who will shape its future.
Watch This Space
Attempts by small space companies to win NASA contracts are as perennial as Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football.
January 2006 |
By Geoffrey Little
A Full Retaliatory Response
When President John Kennedy contemplated nuclear war, what went through the minds of the U.S. bomber crews?
November 2005 |
By Thomas Jones
The Raptor Arrives
Debriefing the pilots who got the first crack at the F-22.
November 2005 |
By Carl Hoffman
Spaceman
Sometimes an entire era is represented by a single career.
September 2005 |
By Geoffrey Little
The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust
Ronald Reagan was president, there was still a Soviet Union, and a 19-year-old pilot set out to change the world.
July 2005 |
By Tom LeCompte
Leroy's Launch
To watch a friend begin his expedition to the International Space Station, our correspondent travels to emptiest Kazakhstan.
July 2005 |
By George C. Larson
Robo Repairmen
It's getting harder to find good help these days. So these space engineers built their own
July 2005 |
By Michael Behar
Cold Front
Meet the men who kept the Thunderbolts flying.
July 2005 |
By Thomas D. Jones and Robert F. Dorr
The Space Shuttle Returns
How NASA recovered from the Columbia tragedy and tackled the job of getting the shuttle flying again.
May 2005 |
By Linda Shiner
The Nightmare of Voskhod 2
A cosmonaut remembers the exhilaration-and terror-of his first space mission.
January 2005 |
By Alexei Leonov
Fork-tailed Devils and Flying Shoes
What does the Northrop P-61 have in common with Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne?
January 2005 |
By Mark Gatlin
Howard Hughes' Top Ten
Wealthy beyond measure and weird beyond belief, Howard Hughes was an aerospace leviathan.
November 2004 |
By Preston Lerner
Dancing in the Dark
Night vision goggles can save a pilot's life or, if he hasn't had adequate training, take it.
November 2004 |
By John Croft
Crater Face
If we could see all the holes gouged in the Earth by asteroids, we'd run screaming for cover.
May 2004 |
By Tony Reichhardt
I Got Shot Down
Seven airmen talk about the event none wants to experience.
May 2004 |
By Phil Scott
Retro Rocketeers
If a capsule was good enough to get a crew to the moon, these old-timers say, it's good enough to get a crew back to Earth.
May 2004 |
By James Oberg
French Lessons
With their own country occupied by Germany, French air cadets came to Alabama to learn to fly. Vive la Dixie!
March 2004 |
By Janelle Dupont
Star Power
The plasma rocket, says U.S. astronaut Franklin Chang-DÃaz, is the propulsion technology of the future.
March 2004 |
By Beth Dickey
Through Darkest Iraq with Gun and Cobra
A month of war through the night-vision goggles of a Marine AH-1W SuperCobra pilot.
January 2004 |
By Story and photographs by James Cox
