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Aerospace Science

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glowing thrusters of a Progress spacecraft

How does the International Space Station dodge space junk?

The 200-ton orbiting behemoth can get out of harm's way, but not very quickly.
March 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Mars Needs Heroes

When it comes to Martian studies, Mike Carr wrote the book.
March 2007 | By Bob Craddock

The Last Days of T.rex

Maybe an asteroid wasn't to blame after all.
January 16, 2007 | By Bob Craddock

Steam-powered catapults, expensive and difficult to maintain, are operating near their limits and will not be able to accommodate heavier aircraft planned for the future.

How Things Work: Electromagnetic Catapults

From zero to 150 in less than a second.
January 2007 | By Tim Wright

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Martian Gushers

Claims of active flows on Mars are remarkable, but do they hold water?
January 2007 | By Bob Craddock

Jeff Williams testing two of three SPHERES satellites onboard the space station in August 2006.

STS-116: The Inside Guide

A tip sheet for following this week's space shuttle mission.
January 2007 | By Tony Reichhardt

Global Postioning System satellites provide lcoations while ADS-B-equipped aircraft share flight information. Communications satellites (not shown) can link air traffic control stations.

How Things Work: Aircraft Identification

A digital communications system could put the control tower in the cockpit.
November 2006 | By Lester A. Reingold

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

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

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

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

Flameout

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

Swing Wings

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

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

Ballons may someday collect samples from the surface of Saturn

Floaters

Mars, Venus, Titan - wherever there's air, we can explore by balloon.
July 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Superduperjumbo

Double the size of an Airbus A380? No problem, aerodynamicists say.
July 2006 | By Michael Milstein

The SBX, shown here on a cargo vessel in Texas, practiced two days of "weather avoidance" when Hurricane Emily arrived in the Gulf of Mexico during 2005 testing. The range of the array inside the dome is limited only by Earth

How Things Work: Phased-Array Radar

It takes a big eye to see a missile coming.
July 2006 | By Sam Goldberg

Living and working in the most remote office in the solar system, the next moon-bound astronauts will rely on a 21st century lunar lander with conveniences only dreamt of by veterans of Apollo.

Son of Apollo

The next lunar lander will be a giant leap ahead of the first.
May 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

Like a whale in a tanning salon, a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy bakes under a bank of heat lamps in the main chamber, which was enlarged in 1968 to accommodate the Air Force

Torture Chamber

Because airplanes must fly in the real world, the Air Force built a fake one.
May 2006 | By Ed Regis


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