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Bill Borucki's Planet Search
Finding another Earth may be easier than the Kepler project's long quest for funding.
May 2003 |
By Andrew Lawler
White Elephant
How the Soviet Buran space shuttle helped the United States win the cold war.
January 2003 |
By Tom Harpole
Will the Air Force Finally Get a Spaceplane?
If Boeing's X-37 can maneuver politically as well as in space.
January 2003 |
By Ben Iannotta
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Slept Here
Following in the footsteps of the man who invented space travel.
September 2002 |
By Anatoly Zak
Galileo's Last Look
Launched 13 years ago, a rugged spacecraft send its last postcards from Jupiter.
September 2002 |
By Tony Reichhardt
Space Shuttle Diaries
Exhilaration, fear, surprise, and fun: spaceflight, according to the astronauts.
May 2002 |
By The Editors of Air&Space Magazine
Commentary: Astronauts to Asteroids
We've done the moon. Mars is too far. There's a better destination in our own back yard.
May 2002 |
By Thomas D. Jones
How Things Work: Shuttle Launch Windows
Space Shuttle launches must work like clockwork. Here is how the clockwork works.
March 2002 |
By Eric Adams
X-Ray Eyes
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory opens the book on the high-energy universe.
March 2002 |
By James S. Schultz
"We Called It 'The Bug'"
The Apollo Lunar Module wasn't pretty. But it got the job done.
September 2001 |
By D.C. Agle
Fallen Star
A Russian-born journalist penetrates mission control for Mir's final moments.
July 2001 |
By Anatoly Zak
Fade to Black
Now and then, the faintest whisper returns from NASA's distant space probes.
July 2001 |
By J. Kelly Beatty
Particle Man
Sam Ting is on a mission: find the other half of the universe.
May 2001 |
By Andrew Lawler
Terra Cognita
A new generation of satellites zooms in on a familiar planet.
March 2001 |
By Tony Reichhardt
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
Window on the World
It's only a small pane in the International Space Station.
May 2000 |
By Leonard David
