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Did Harriet Quimby’s Blériot End Up in New York?

Or maybe it’s just another aviation urban legend

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Plane Spotting

You’ll find them at most any airport. Some spotters try to see every type of jet flown by a given airline, while others look for special liveries

An artist's rendering of the proposed asteroid retrieval mission.

Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission

So it’s not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.

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Autumn on Titan

An ice cloud is forming over south pole on Saturn’s largest moon.

Artist's conception of a robotic retrieval spacecraft approaching a target asteroid.

The Great Asteroid Grab

Instead of astronauts going to the rock, the rock will come to them.

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A Brief Tour of Time (and Navigation)

A new exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum tells us where we are, and how to get where we’re going next

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Air Force’s Best Images

The Air Force is highlighting their best images from 2012. 

A THAAD interceptor launches from a missile range off the coast of Hawaii.

Does Missile Defense Actually Work?

Not 100 percent. But it’s better than it used to be.

Still from Laser Weapon System (LaWS).

Drone vs. Laser

Guess who wins

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Air Force’s Best Images

The Air Force is highlighting their best images from 2012. 

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The Mystery of Shackleton Crater

New information about the interior of the crater Shackleton at the south pole of the Moon sheds light on questions remaining about water on the Moon

Jerry Ross during an unplanned spacewalk to fix the balky Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on his third mission in 1991.

NASA’s Frequent Flier

After logging nearly 1,400 hours in orbit, Jerry Ross reflects on spaceflight past and future.

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Air Force’s Best Images

The Air Force is highlighting their best images from 2012. 

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Jupiter as Art

Michael Benson’s view of the solar system are in a new exhibit and book.

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Evasive Maneuvers! Avoid the Tractor Beam!

The space station commander celebrates the beginning of April in space.

The dirigible Los Angeles "docking" at the Empire State Building. The composite 1930 photograph is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's traveling exhibition, "Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop."

Docking on the Empire State Building

Despite plans for a mooring station, only one airship ever docked at the Empire State Building

Soldiers place a wounded sergeant aboard a MEDEVAC flight in Iraq’s Diyala province in October 2008.

Transporting the Wounded in Iraq

This time it wasn’t a false alarm.

Model of a supersonic transport, circa late 1960s.

The Titanium Gambit

During the Cold War, Boeing execs got a strange call from the State Department: Would you guys mind trading secrets with the Russians?

Would orbiting a spot in empty space, 15 percent farther from home than the Apollo astronauts ventured, be too much of a stretch for NASA, or too little? One big advantage is that it could be done soon, with equipment already under construction.

NASA Aims to go Beyond the Moon

It’s not a place, exactly. But it could be NASA’s next destination.

The author, in his salad days, having graduated from the F-4S to the F/A-18D.

“Back in the Old Marine Corps…”

John Scanlan goes back in time.

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