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Centuries

Aviation innovations, milestones and developments from the 18th through the 21st century
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A & S Interview: Leonard Bruno

The Library of Congress manuscript specialist looks after some of aviation's most historic documents.
July 2007 | By Pat Trenner

Astronaut John Blaha stands inside the Shuttle Launch Experience "crew pod."

Your Space Shuttle Ride Awaits

A new ride at the Kennedy Space Center is -- sadly -- the closest most of us will come to experiencing the thrill of a shuttle launch.
July 2007 | By Irene Klotz

Why do we have to turn off iPods during takeoff?

July 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Concerto for Merlin and Double Wasp

John Altmann thinks airplane engines make beautiful music, and has sold thousands of CDs to prove it.
May 2007 | By Keith Hatschek

Spaceport Singapore, envisioned by Space Adventures, Ltd., would cost $115 million. A Singapore-based consortium and the Crown Prince of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates are backing the venture.

Fields of Dreams

Will starry-eyed entrepreneurs transform today's wide-open spaces into tomorrow's spaceports?
May 2007 | By Ed Regis

"The AeroShell Aerobatic Team is an act not to miss. This formation team flies the venerable AT-6G Texan and is a perennial favorite on the airshow circuit. With skill, grace and coordination this is precision formation flying at its best. And who does

Airshows 2007: Photographer's Choice

Three pros pick their favorite acts to shoot.
May 2007 | By airspacemag.com

An SM-3 interceptor rises from a U.S. Navy Aegis cruiser in 2002. Sea-based defenses are attractive for intercepting shorter-range threats in their midcourse phase.

Can We Stop a Nuke?

From the impossible dream of a space-based shield, missile defense has come down to Earth. But will it work?
May 2007 | By Ben Iannotta

Bob Englar revived the Custer Channel Wing for wind tunnel experiments directing airflow.

That Extra Little Lift

Willard Custer's Channel Wing looked like a mistake. Turns out his critics were the ones who were wrong.
May 2007 | By Tim Wright

A & S Interview: Michimasa Fujino

President and CEO, Honda Aircraft Company
May 2007 | By Linda Shiner

Above & Beyond: Milk Run

How a milk run from an aircraft carrier nearly killed me.
May 2007 | By Chris McKenna

A group of astronauts and flight controllers monitor the action in Mission Control during the Apollo 13 mission

Did Ron Howard exaggerate the reentry scene in the movie Apollo 13?

A little bit, maybe, but not much.
May 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

A & S Interview: Frank Robinson

The world's most prolific builder of civilian helicopters.
March 2007 | By Mark Huber

Great Hero Yang

In 2003, China's first astronaut stepped out of his space capsule and into the limelight.
March 2007 | By James R. Hansen

Northrop Flying Wing

And Then There Was One

Ten airplanes that are the last still flying.
March 2007 | By Stephen Joiner

The Astronaut Farmer: A Talk With the Filmmakers

This throwback to the space program's past highlights the power of dreams.
March 2007 | By airspacemag.com

In March 1945, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis was commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces 332nd Fighter Group (better known as the Tuskegee airmen) in Italy. Pilots of the 332nd flew North American P-51 Mustangs as fighter escorts for Allied bombers. After the war, Davis would become the first black general in the U.S. Air Force.

A Quarter Century of "Black Wings"

A talk with the curator of the National Air and Space Museum's soon-to-be-updated exhibit on African-Americans in aviation.
March 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

The sculptural relief on the terminal

Then & Now

No More New Orleans Cover-up
January 2007 | By Vincent P. Caire

Moonbound

Who isn't planning a lunar mission these days?
January 2007 | By Tony Reichhardt

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


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