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Pilots get special training in Alaska.
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An astronaut takes a walk out in space last week.
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This Lockheed Lightning is ready to go.
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Why did Lindbergh leave the windows open?
Bob Van der Linden gives us the answer.
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The last A-10 “Warthog” permanently stationed in Europe recently packed up and flew home.
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A test observatory in South Africa is making some discoveries of its own.
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How a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A.
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Meet the pilots who created the Alaska bush pilot legend.
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It wasn’t the flashiest jet fighter, but the Grumman F9F was a rugged little aircraft that did everything asked of it
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A New Dawn, Partially Realized
In 1969, Pan Am was promising both the jumbo jet and the SST. In the end, we only got one of them
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An airman pulls a fuel line in the desert as part of a massive interagency exercise.
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A satellite image shows how two countries are conserving their rain forests.
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Unmanned X-47B Launches from a Carrier
For the first time in history, a combat aircraft with no pilot onboard took off from an aircraft carrier at sea
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Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet”
New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon
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Somebody had to do it
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The Air Force takes their new fighter jets for a ride in formation.
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Flora Haines Loughead was a journalist, farmer, miner, and mother to two pioneers of the aviation history
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An astronaut performs an experiment for a fuel study on the space station.
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Space exploration and the limits of charity
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The Waverider soars, thanks to the longest scramjet burn ever
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