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Air & Space Magazine

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Of Turtles and Men

If the Mercury astronauts seemed obsessed with bathroom humor, maybe it was because of their doctors

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Ohio’s Space Shuttle

It never went to space, but the astronauts spent many hundreds of hours inside the CCT-1.

A formation of Navy Blue Angel FA-18 Hornets from Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., fly together after being refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker from Altus Air Force Base Sept. 20, 2012. Aircrew from the 54th Air Refueling Squadron at Altus AFB refueled the Blue Angels on the way to Grand Juction, Colo., to perform in the First Mountain West Airshow. The Blue Angels travel 300 days out the year to perform aerial stunts for audiences nation wide.

Angels Over Altus

European Space Agency's "Edoardo Amaldi" ATV-3 approaches the International Space Station.

Portrait of a Breakup

First-time views from inside a re-entering spacecraft

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Hit-and-Run Science

Two new and very different scientific studies may revise our understanding of the Giant Impact that supposedly created the Moon

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A Streambed On Mars

Early Flight in Louisiana

A new book documents the barnstormers, aircraft designers, and airline entrepreneurs who made their mark in the deep South.

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Watching Rocks Fall

This satellite tracks landslides in the Swiss Alps. 

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Stratospheric Jump Set for October 8

Felix Baumgartner and his Red Bull team set a date for the Big Leap

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Leaflets Away!

An Osprey is a vehicle for communication in Afghanistan.

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Hydrogen Belt

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft put together a colorful map of protoplanet Vesta.

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The 2012 Drought, As Seen From Space

NASA’s GRACE satellites have been watching our groundwater disappear

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NASA’s Chief Historian

We’re talking to William Barry about history, era’s of spaceflight and program heroes.

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Evacuating the Injured

A Marine Corps pilot flies CASEVAC missions in Iraq.

A relic R-12 missile from the time of the October 1962 Cuban crisis, at a site near Havana.

The Critical Role of Kotex in the Cuban Missile Crisis

One way to keep things secure during low-level spy flights

Plenty of fans returned for the 2012 Reno air races, although the stands weren’t full, except in Section 3, home of the orange shirts.

The Resilience of Air Race Fans

The real stars at Reno this year were in the stands

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Endeavour’s Last Ride

The youngest shuttle heads west. 

Marine Captain John Hudson (right) greets Navy Commander William Ecker, head of VFP-62, known as the “Fightin’ Photo,” at Florida’s Homestead Air Force Base before a press conference in December 1962. Behind them is an RF-8A Crusader, with a stenciled Fidel Castro and dead chickens to denote completed missions over Cuba.

Due South of Key West

Flying fast and low over Castro’s Cuba.

In 1938, TWA stewardesses were honored for each having completed a quarter-million miles or more of flying.

The Golden Age of Flight Attendants

A new book documents the evolution of stewardesses from registered nurses to starlets in the sky

This oblique, aerial view of a Soviet missile site, taken at an undisclosed location during the crisis, shows movers used to haul missiles inland after delivery by Soviet cargo ship, oxidizer tanks used for their fueling, missile erectors, and shelters.

Kennedy’s Evidence

Low-level aerial photos confirmed that Soviet nuclear missiles were in Cuba in 1962

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