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The Swedish National Heritage Board doesn't have much information about this photo in its archives of "an aeroplane on its way at lake Thingvallavatn" taken by Berit Wallenberg in 1930. Thingvallavatn is a large lake in Thingvellir National Park in Iceland, known as part of the "Golden Circle," a popular destination for tourists. Photo by Berit Wallenberg; courtesy of the Swedish National Heritage Board

Icelandic Lake Take-Off

Thingvallavatn serves as a runway.

The World’s First Combat Jet

The Germans had it. The Americans wanted it.

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Making Nice With the Air Force

A Navy admiral emphasizes interservice solidarity

More than 60 years after Fermi posed his famous question, "they" still haven't shown up.

The Fermi Paradox Revisited

If we haven’t heard from extraterrestrials, maybe it’s because we’re not using the right technology—yet

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Wartime Mechanics

A young pilot rebuilds an airplane engine.

Zimmer’s Skimmer

Seven decades after it first flew, the V-173 got its old look back.

Voodoo makes a comeback. Owner Bob Button had retired the famous Mustang, but it flew at speeds higher than 500 mph this year.

Hinton Takes Gold at Reno

Steve Hinton and Voodoo triumph at the National Championship Air Races

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First Man on Mars: Leonardo da Vinci

His portrait is there, anyway, thanks to Italian state TV and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Lightning Refuel

It takes concentration for a mid-air refueling.

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Voyager is Now Among the Stars

A 36-year-old spacecraft becomes the first to enter interstellar space

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Observing Starbirth

A new Chilean observatory takes a close look at a Herbig-Haro object.

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The Top 12 Habitable Exoplanets

Researchers at the University of Puerto Rico are keeping a list

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Smile for the Propaganda

Soldiers sit with a captured German airplane.

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LADEE and Life

The moon may be a dead rock, but NASA’s newest lunar mission holds interest for astrobiologists

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Securing the Landing Zone

A Sea Knight waits for the clear.

Scenes from a Russian Airshow

Stealth fighters, nuclear rocket designs, and a new lunar lander all were on display at MAKS 2013

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Signs of “Life” on the Lunar Frontier

New sightings of water on the Moon, roadmaps for exploration and commercial lunar flights

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Spitzer at 10

The infrared telescope keeps on truckin’.

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The Wing is the Thing

How to keep our balsa wood airplane from being nose- or tail-heavy requires some careful planning

The Science of Stealth

The most classified technology in a stealthy airplane is its skin

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