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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, meets filmmaker James Cameron at the space agency

Cameron’s Camera

Avatar’s creator hopes to direct the first movies shot on Mars.
March 23, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

Falcon 9 on the Launch Pad

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket—which the company hopes will usher in a new era of lower-cost commercial space travel—has arrived at its launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Engineers are checking out the vehicle's fuel, liquid oxygen, and gas pressure systems. Once they pass muster, the launch team will...
February 22, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

Virtual Flight Over Mont Blanc

More coolness in Google Earth: A virtual helicopter flight over the Chamonix Valley in France, including Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in western Europe. Take the whole tour at this site (you'll need the Google Earth plug-in, which is easy to install) or watch a short YouTube video below:
December 22, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Googling Mars

Real Mars exploration has been at an impasse lately, what with the Spirit rover stuck in the sand, and the Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft both experiencing  service interruptions.But virtual Mars exploration is going gangbusters. Google Mars, if you haven't tried it yet, is...
December 14, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Soyuz Goes South

Russian rocket engineers do things a little differently from their American counterparts. They assemble the rocket with the vehicle lying on its side, then hoist it into launch position at the pad (watch a video here).That practice will continue when Soyuz rockets begin launching from the European ...
December 01, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Spoiler Alert

A shame that Cessna doesn’t seem to recognize a potential PR gold mine. Remember when Mathias Rust landed a rented Cessna 172 near Red Square in 1987? Not a peep from Cessna headquarters. Now the company appears to have missed out again: In the mega-apocalyptic move 2012, a lowly Cessna 340A saves ...
November 18, 2009 | By Pat Trenner

Video: Ares 1-X, All the Way to Splashdown

Check out how good the camera technology has gotten for tracking a rocket booster all the way to 150,000 feet and back to the ocean. This high-definition video was taken during NASA's Ares 1-X launch on October 28, 2009, with a gyro-stabilized camera on board a Cessna Skymaster purring along at 12,...
November 10, 2009 | By Mike Klesius

Video: Indoor Helicopter

Robot aircraft keep getting smaller and smarter. This one, built by a team at MIT, won the International Aerial Robotics Competition 5th mission challenge, which required that it enter a building, find its way around (through hallways and open windows), and send video back to home base. All autonom...
November 05, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

With highly trained engineers coming to the United States from abroad, chances are good that we’ll see more naturalized citizens in line for the Wright Trophy.

Moments and Milestones: The American Way

November 2009 | By George C. Larson, member, NAA

Tufts on the Jetwing fuselage and vertical stabilizer would reveal airflow patterns.

Oldies and Oddities: Blown Away

November 2009 | By Ken Scott

A typical Alaskan sky, photographed from Eielson Air Force Base, 25 miles southeast of Fairbanks, displays auroral structures and motions that scientists still find mystifying.

The Shining

What we still have to learn about the Northern Lights.
November 2009 | By Tim Wright

A cloaking device is made of copper rings, each surrounded by 10 layers of meta-material.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Blinding us with science: the next generation of stealth.
November 2009 | By Damond Benningfield

Viewport: See the World

November 2009 | By J.R. Dailey

Ares I-X: "Frickin' Fantastic"

Score one for the rocket engineers.To quote Ed Mango, the launch director for today’s Ares I-X rocket test, his team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center did a “frickin’ fantastic” job on their first outing, which gathered data for the designers of NASA’s proposed Ares 1 crew launcher. It appears the eng...
October 28, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Inventions large and small have combined over the years to create the modern experience of air travel. And you don’t have to be a frequent flier to know that today’s airliner is still a work in progress: What you see today may not be there tomorrow.

Anatomy of an Airliner

Our maxim: The airlines giveth, and the airlines taketh away.
September 2009 | By The Editors

Designers (from left) Tom Hudspeth, Harold Rosen, and Don Williams, holding a tube for amplifying radio frequency signals, surround the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, Syncom.

Spin Doctors

For that satellite dish on your roof and the phone calls you make to Japan, you can thank Harold Rosen.
September 2009 | By Guy Gugliotta

The F-14 was the first fighter to rely on a digital computer to optimize performance. Its microprocessor adjusted its wing sweep.

The Road to the Future… Is Paved With Good Inventions

We bring you 10 great ideas that made flying safer, easier, or just a whole lot more fun.
September 2009 | By The Editors

Before the SpeedHawk, Piasecki studied how Cobras (pictured) and Apaches would fly with ducted propellers.

Hot-Rod Helicopters

There’s just no way to add 100 mph to the speed of a helicopter. Or is there?
September 2009 | By James R. Chiles

Test flights in Akron, Ohio, 1956 — the Inflatoplane’s brief moment in the sun.

The Department of Never Mind

A collection of six inventions that prompt a single question: What the…?
September 2009 | By The Editors

One of the nearest-term ideas for future space travel: a nuclear thermal rocket that could get to Mars in 30 days.

Mars, and Step on It

When it’s not the journey but the destination that counts.
September 2009 | By Michael Klesius


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