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Air & Space Magazine

Marc Rayman and the flight operations team in the mission control room the day Dawn launched, September 27, 2007.

A True Interplanetary Spaceship

The team behind NASA’s asteroid mission Dawn takes home the National Air and Space Museum Trophy.

Augustine listens to a question from the audience at a meeting of the Human Space Flight Plans Committee in 2009.

Norman Augustine: The Chairman

The former Lockheed CEO, science advisor extraordinaire, and 2014 National Air and Space Museum trophy winner reflects on his career.

Delivering Discovery

The venerable space shuttle’s last trip: to the National Air and Space Museum.

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B-17 Flying Fortress

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Joshua Tree Star Trails

Graham Pearson with his sample of ringwoodite.

A New Mineral, Never Seen on Earth, Points to Our Planet’s Watery Interior

A diamond discovered in Brazil yields even richer scientific treasure.

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Proto-Planet Flow

NASA’s Dawn mission spotted a carter on the asteroid Vesta that had flow structures, indicated here in blue and red. Scientists don’t know their origin yet, but they’ll continue to study the data that Dawn sent back during its year in orbit around the proto-planet.

U.S. Air Force C-47s unload at Tempelhof during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-49.

Tempelhof Airport Needs a Lift

The citizens of Berlin will soon decide the historic airfield’s fate.

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Team AeroDynamix over Augusta, Georgia

An artist's impression shows the Rosetta and its lander approaching a comet as it comes alive from the sun's heat.

Rosetta’s Comet Gets an Early Start

Comet 67P has gotten close enough to the sun to start sizzling.

Did you think Quasimodo was disabled by his bell-ringing gig? He may have been a victim of "Helo Hunch," or poor cockpit sitting posture.

The Helicopter Pilot’s Dreaded “Helo Hunch”

Flying helicopters is a musculoskeletal nightmare.

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Traveling over Turkey by Balloon

Tested friendship: NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev are preparing for a March 26 launch to the space station.

Space cooperation: A U.S. bargaining chip in the Ukraine standoff?

Russia’s space program may need NASA more than NASA needs Russia.

Static-Cling Crab Nebula

B-2: The Inside Story

American airpower’s “Man of Steel”

Kathy Sullivan is bathed in sunlight during a space shuttle mission in 1984.

Do space station crews take vitamin pills?

Recommended dietary supplements for the space traveler

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Air Force B-29 “FIFI” at Wiley Post Airport

Mars One: Balancing Skepticism and Optimism

There are lots of “ifs” in a controversial plan to send people to Mars by 2025.

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A Superior Freeze

An image from NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the Great Lakes 80.3% frozen on February 19, 2014.

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Last One Out With the Sun

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