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Tough under pressure: Space station flight director Mark Ferring at his console during last year

The Ground

Astronauts get the glory, but flight directors run the show.
November 2006 | By Michael Behar

Debuting in 1915, the petite French Nieuport 11 fighter was based on the design of several pre-war racers.

The Great Warplanes

Portraits of military aviation's first fleet.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

The D.VII entered service in 1918 and quickly established itself as the best fighter of the Great World War, as beloved by German pilots as it was feared by Allies.

Cecil Lewis' War

One writer's view of flying in WWI.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

The first three paying astronauts (left to right, Greg Olsen, Mark Shuttleworth, and Dennis Tito) found that comfort was not guaranteed with their tickets. Enduring the rigors of spaceflight that professionals do was yet another price to pay.

Space Trippers

Did the first paying guests aboard the international space station get their $20 million worth?
November 2006 | By Craig Mellow

Honda

The Next Little Thing

Why 2006 is the year of the very light jet.
November 2006 | By Mark Huber

The X-35A, built to validate propulsion and flying qualities for the Joint Strike Fighter, takes flight in October 2000.

Weight Watchers

How a team of engineers and a crash diet saved the Joint Strike Fighter.
November 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

A prototype of NASA

The Not-So-Big Dig

With the equivalent power of an electric can opener, engineers try to do more than scratch the Martian surface.
November 2006 | By Tom Harpole

Above & Beyond: A Bougainville Mystery

November 2006 | By Paul A. Roales

Alberto Santos-Dumont’s 14 Bis had three distinctly different sets of controls, which provided the aircraft’s stability.

In the Museum

The Spirit of Santos-Dumont
November 2006 | By Bettina H. Chavanne

X-35B short-takeoff and vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum

The X-35 on Display

The fighter of the future comes to the Hazy Center.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

Worden takes the controls of a PT-17 "Kaydet" Stearman biplane during the Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom 2006 tour.

A & S Interview: Pete Worden

The director of NASA's Ames Research Center talks about piloting a Stearman and settling the moon.
November 2006 | By Paul Hoversten

Passenger Thomas Selfridge (left) and Orville Wright prepare to take off at Fort Myer, Virginia on September 17, 1908. They crashed soon after, and Selfridge became the first air fatality.

Under the Hood of a Wright Flyer

Aviation historians and restorers get a rare peek at a 98-year-old engine.
November 2006 | By Linda Shiner

Voyager ends its round-the-world trip in December 1986.

Why was the Voyager aircraft not symmetrical?

A 20-year mystery solved.
November 01, 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Starship on a Chip

Big distance, tiny spacecraft.
November 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

View of Earth from a camera on V-2 #13, launched October 24, 1946.

The First Photo From Space

In 1946, rocket-borne cameras gave us our first look at Earth from beyond the atmosphere.
November 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

How much is my Lindbergh photo worth?

Some Lindys are luckier than others.
November 01, 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

An early plastic mockup of the Nano Air Vehicle is about the size and shape of a maple seed.

Tomorrow's Spy Plane

A Nano Air Vehicle based on a maple seed.
November 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

AAU CubeSat

How small can satellites get and still be functional?

From Nanosats to Femtosats.
September 01, 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

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


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