Tony Reichhardt

Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space.

Want to see the view from the left seat of a C-5 transport? Just keep staring at that blue circle.

Matterport Makes VR Navigation Easy

Look around inside a C-5 transport, or roam the bridge of the USS <i>Midway</i>.

Schiaparelli did fire its thrusters to brake its fall, but not for long enough.

ExoMars Lander Goes Silent at the Last Minute

The good news: The Trace Gas Orbiter arrived as planned and is running flawlessly.

This could be you, circa 2025.

Did SpaceX Just Pass NASA on the Road to Mars?

Elon Musk’s biggest, boldest plan yet.

Inside Hangar One at Moffett Field.

Inside Hangar One

For his cameo role as an alien in the new film, Star Trek Beyond, Jeff Bezos had to sit two hours in a makeup chair, but he says it was worth it.

Jeff Bezos’ Simple Two-Step Plan

Revolutionizing online shopping wasn’t challenging enough, apparently.

Tiangong-2 heads to the launch pad on top of a Long March rocket.

China Prepares for First Astronaut Flight in Three Years

Tiangong-2 marks another step toward a long-term space station.

A billion points of light: Gaia&rsquo;s all-sky map shows the disk of the Milky Way at center, with dark patches of obscuring dust. At lower right are two nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Stripes in the image are data gaps&mdash;which eventually will be filled in. Click here to see a larger, annotated version.

Gaia’s Billion-Star Atlas Will Revolutionize Astronomy

The ultimate roadmap of our galaxy is now online.

Spaceship Unity, carried by Virgin Galactic's mother ship and piloted by Mark Stucky and Dave Mackay, makes its first flight over the Mojave desert on September 8, 2016.

Virgin Galactic Gets Back to Flying

<i>Unity</i> picks up where the space tourism company left off in 2014.

A Falcon 9 explodes on the launch pad, 9:07 a.m. on September 1, 2016.

Bad Day at Pad 40

SpaceX loses a rocket, and some of its momentum.

A KC-135 Stratotanker from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, refuels a pair of F-16 Fighting Falcons in flight.

The Stratotanker Turns 60

The KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft made its first flight on August 31, 1956.

The RATAN-600 radio telescope in southern Russia.

So You’ve Heard a Potential Alien Signal. How Do You Tell the World?

The hazards of going public in the face of uncertainty.

Oh, and she also does spacewalks—Rubins preparing for her August 19 EVA.

‘That’s What Happens When You Send Up a Microbiologist’

Scientist-turned-astronaut Kate Rubins brings her lab experience to orbit.

Artist's impression of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the picture.

An Earthlike (Maybe) Planet Around the Nearest Star

Proxima b is the first exoplanet we can actually contemplate visiting.

Astronaut Ron Garan photographed a streaking meteor (center) from on board the space station during the 2011 Perseid shower.

How, Where, and When to Watch the Perseid Meteors

If you’re in the right place, all you really have to do is look up.

Lilienthal on one of his thousands of glider flights in the mid-1890s.

The Last Words of Otto Lilienthal

Germany’s “Flying Man” was the most successful aviator of his day.

Keep walking, and try not to look at the camera.

Life on an Aircraft Carrier

Walt Cunningham onboard Apollo 7 in 1968. It's safer in Earth orbit.

Space Radiation May Cause Heart Disease

Apollo astronauts have died from cardiovascular problems at a much higher rate than other astronauts. Why?

Eldon Joersz (left) and George Morgan on the day of their record-setting flight.

The Fastest Jet Flight in History

Forty years ago, the SR-71 Blackbird set a record that still stands.

Scientific conferences on exoplanets, like this one in Arizona in 2011, now routinely draw hundreds of attendees. Thirty years ago, you could have fit all the world’s experts in a small classroom.

Kepler’s Children: Meet The Scientists Searching for Other Earths

How NASA’s planet-hunting telescope kicked off a revolution.

A little help, please? The 15-year-old Mars Odyssey has been a good data relay, but it’s yesterday’s technology.

Mars Needs Broadband!

A new relay satellite will boost the data flow from Mars starting in the early 2020s.

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