Stories from Heather Goss
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Student Rocketry Challenge Blasts Off
Winners take home big prizes (and compete to be the next generation of aerospace leadership) in the Team America Rocketry Challenge.
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A Saturn V’s Final Journey: From Mildew to Museum
A new book recounts (sort of) the difficult restoration of a deteriorating Saturn V
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Personal Jetpacks of the Future, Today
Watch Yves Rossy fly his jet-powered wing above the Swiss countryside
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Discovery Joins the National Air and Space Museum
Two space shuttles parked nose-to-nose today; one leaving its museum home and the other ready to take its place
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Thursday Night is Yuri’s Night
How will you celebrate human spaceflight on April 12?
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Street art revives ancient airplanes.
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The U.S./European Saturn mission takes home a trophy.
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The Planetary Science Institute has released a new geological map of Jupiter’s moon Io, integrating information taken by the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft.
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A look back at Claude Grahame-White’s 1910 landing next to the White House.
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NASA is getting ready to launch a barrage of rockets that should be visible along the U.S. Eastern seaboard.
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Aircraft manufacturers compete to build the Long Range Strike Bomber
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Astronomers learn more about a hot, watery, exotic “super-Earth”
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A few months into testing, the new cargo helo seems to be performing well
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The Known Universe is a 21st-century upgrade to our visualization of the sheer size of things
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A handy interactive map shows what lies ahead in space over the next decade.
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DARPA’s Space Surveillance Telescope is seeking out potentially Earth-threatening asteroids
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying out innovation the 21st century way: crowdsourcing
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Scientists offer a mesmerizing visual of the matter that makes up, well, everything.
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Post-holiday Diet Starts at the Airport
Detroit flyers can get a head-start on resolution dieting at their top ranking healthiest airport
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Lockheed Martin held their first Tweetup this week, inviting fans to see the last F-22 roll out of the factory. So what’s a Tweetup and how did they start?
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