Aerospace Technology
Inventions and engineering achievements, including rockets, jet engines and navigation systemsWhite Elephant
How the Soviet Buran space shuttle helped the United States win the cold war.
January 2003 |
By Tom Harpole
Winner Take All
All the nail biting, second guessing, and sheer engineering brilliance in the battle to build the better Joint Strike Fighter.
January 2003 |
By Evan Hadingham
Outback Scramjet
A University of Queensland lab has supersonic success.
November 2002 |
By Luba Vangelova
Shoot 'Em Up
Sometimes you have to destroy the aircraft in order to save it.
November 2002 |
By Carl Hoffman
Flying Upside Down
Devices an aerobatic airplane uses to defy gravity--and convention.
May 2002 |
By Patricia Trenner
How Things Work: Flying Upside Down
The tricks that keep the engine from knowing it’s not right side up.
May 2002 |
By Patricia Trenner
The Rocket Ships
Tracking launches from Cape Canaveral required old boats and iron guts.
January 2002 |
By Dan Kovalchik
How Things Work: Celestial Navigation
Knowing where you are going in space.
November 2001 |
By Joe Henderson
The Mirror Makers
The fight is on for the chance to build the world's most advanced space telescope.
November 2001 |
By Ben Iannotta
Restoration: Unearthing a Diamond
The Diamond is the only one of its kind ever built.
November 2001 |
By Becki Bell
"We Called It 'The Bug'"
The Apollo Lunar Module wasn't pretty. But it got the job done.
September 2001 |
By D.C. Agle
Hill Climb
Why General Electric put an airplane engine on a truck and drove it to the top of Pikes Peak.
May 2001 |
By Donald Sherman
Q
When the job demands ingenuity, NASA engineers whip gadgets worthy of James Bond.
May 2001 |
By Eric Adams
What Were They Thinking?
The wonderful, unworkable world of airplane design in the years before the Wright brothers.
March 2001 |
By Phil Scott
Hang a Right at Jupiter
For space navigators, the best course to a distant object is never a straight line.
January 2001 |
By Michael Milstein
