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Multiple images of Mars taken on a single afternoon in November 2006 by the Mars Observer Camera on the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The white areas are frost.

MGS, R.I.P.

A round of applause for one of the most productive planetary missions ever.
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

Footprint at Tranquility Base, July 1969.

My Favorite Artifact: The Apollo Landing Sites

This space historian's ideal exhibit is one that's not quite ready to open.
January 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

PLSS backpacks

How did the Apollo astronauts toss their spacesuits overboard?

Hint: They kept the most important part.
January 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

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

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

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

Norman Rockwell's Ghost

The most artistic collaboration of the entire Apollo program.
September 2006 | By Pierre Mion

Cassini views Enceladus in July 2005.

Mission to Enceladus

NASA summer students plot a course for Saturn's mysterious ice world.
September 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

Grissom

Home on the Plains

Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule settles down in Kansas.
September 2006 | By Paul Hoversten

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

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

By the time the author visited the space station in 2001, the view through the window of a docked shuttle (here, Discovery) had become part of life in orbit.

Shuttle Stop

The tensest moment in spaceflight: Docking with a 100-ton space station while orbiting Earth at five miles per second.
May 2006 | By Thomas D. Jones

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

The Invisible Killers

We have the technology to send astronauts to Mars. But can we return them safely to Earth?
January 2006 | By John F. Ross

Air pressure changes, combined with just the right humidity levels, result in a condensation cloud as this F/A-18 passes through the sound barrier.

The Boom Stops Here

Hush, hush, sweet SST. Engineers are inventing a supersonic airplane that won't bust windows.
November 2005 | By T.A. Heppenheimer

Waiting inside the Gemini 3 capsule on March 23, 1965, John Young was about to embark on the first of six voyages into space—seven if you count Apollo 16

Spaceman

Sometimes an entire era is represented by a single career.
September 2005 | By Geoffrey Little

The Soyuz lifts off on October 14, 2004, bound for the space station.

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

Flying doorstop: The wedge shape of the X-43 compresses air entering the engine. This computational fluid dynamics image shows the vehicle

Debrief: Hyper-X

Scramjet power? Simple: Keep a match lit in a 7,000-mph wind.
July 2005 | By Michael Milstein


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