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Air & Space Magazine

What’s in a Name?

Calling out ULA’s new rocket

A Twin Otter seaplane flying over the shallow waters of the Maldives.

Living in the Age of Airplanes

A conversation with documentarian Brian J. Terwilliger about the airplane’s gifts to humankind

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Stealth in the Clouds

A Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit takes flies above the cloud cover after a refueling.

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Bright Launch for a Bright Universe

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, CIBER, aboard a sounding rocket which launched in 2013, found that there is more infrared light in the universe than scientists previously thought, likely from stars tossed out from galaxies.

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Special Forces Overboard

Airmen from the 24th Special Operations Wing, including special ops weathermen, combat controllers, pararescuemen, and tactical air control parties, jump out of an MC-130H Talon II during training.

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Magellanic Cloud Plumes

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this unusual image of the Large Magellanic Cloud by using new filters, replacing a red light filter with one that lets through near-infrared light. The result shows gasses that dominate in blue and green light.

Science Publishing — Some Skepticism Required

Although the volume of published scientific papers is increasing, fewer and fewer may actually be read.

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Model Airplanes for Fun and Profit

Some of the best model airplanes are the ones that never get built.

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SPIDER Sets Down

NASA’s Balloon Program Office in the Antarctic ended the Suborbital Polarimeter for Inflation Dust and the Epoch of Reionization, or SPIDER, mission in January.

Tom Cruise strapped himself to the side of an Airbus A400M last November to film a stunt for "MIssion: Impossible – Rogue Nation."

Tom Cruise Hangs on to a Flying Airbus (Really) in the Next Mission Impossible

He wore a safety harness, but that’s really him on a real aircraft, 5,000 feet off the real ground.

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Iroquois Inspection

A UH-1N Iroquois gets a pre-flight inspection at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

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70th Anniversary of V-E Day

Looking back at the war that shaped a generation, and changed aviation forever.

Artist’s view of LADEE sending a laser signal to Earth in 2013.

Coming Soon: Interplanetary Broadband

When it comes to spacecraft communications, we’re still in the age of dial-up. That’s about to change.

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Rainforest Tendrils

Astronaut Terry Virts took this image of a New Guinea rainforest from the International Space Station.

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Hercules Above the Fog

A C-130H Hercules and C-130J Super Hercules fly near the Pinnacle Mountain State Park in Roland, Arkansas.

“Hey, look what I found!” Curiosity racks up another discovery on Mars.

Mystery Solved: Mars Has Nitrates

The Curiosity rover answers a long-standing question.

Coming in 2018: Hayabusa 2 with its sampling horn extended.

Japanese “People’s Camera” Bound for an Asteroid

The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft includes an instrument funded through private donations.

All cockpit views by Lyle Jansma.

Cockpit Tours

Interactive 360-degree views of the bombers and fighters that won the war.

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In Flight Eclipse

On March 20, 2015, people in the remote northern places like the Faroe Islands got to see a total solar eclipse. Stratospheric balloon company Zero2Infinity sent a camera to watch it from above the clouds. Photographer Ben Cooper, however, got his view on board a Boeing 737-800 over the Norwegian Sea. The flight path allowed the passengers to see the eclipse for a full minute longer than ground viewers. See more photos and read about Cooper’s experience at his website, LaunchPhotography.com.

If you need a haircut on this South Pacific island, look for the Warhawk Barber Shop with its barber pole made of a bomb shell.

Gallery: One Airman’s Trash…

Discarded parts of WWII aircraft were recycled for all kinds of purposes.

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