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Air & Space Magazine

Advertising poster for KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines, circa 1938, showing a cross-section of a Fokker-assembled Douglas DC-2.

Mind if I Smoke?

Remember when passengers used to toss lit cigarettes out the airplane window? No, really!

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Slopes, Streaks and Flows

Dark streaks occur on slopes on both the Moon and Mars. The Moon offers us some insight into how these features can form on all of the terrestrial planets

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Now We Are Six

The International Space Station is back to full occupancy.

The Sierra Nevada Corporation's "Dream Chaser" is one possible contender for NASA's future crew transport to the space station.

Certified Safe

Planning to operate a taxi service for NASA astronauts? Here’s what’s required.

Britain’s Prince Harry checks out the controls from the right seat of a Eurocopter AS350 (Squirrel) helicopter.

Why do helicopter pilots sit in the right seat?

For the answer, we turned to Roger Connor

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Earth Views, The Remix

Because we can’t get enough of this stuff.

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Undock, Redock

China takes another step forward in space station operations

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Boots Off the Ground

Kent Couch plans to balloon over Baghdad on November 15.

Catch-22 began life as "Catch-18," a short, 10-page piece included in the April 1955 issue of New World Writing.

Catch-22 At Fifty

Writer Joseph Heller drew on his own wartime experience for his 1961 masterpiece

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Welcome to Aerotropolis

Cities with an airport view from every window.

Ask a Veteran

These Museum staffers and volunteers once served their country in the armed forces. Now they serve in a different way.

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Gremlin On the Wing

How do you define the fear of flying? Scientists think it might be the sum of other fears.

110930-N-VA840-013 ARABIAN SEA (Sept. 30, 2011) Airman Dyani M. Daniels, left, and Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuel) Airman Clayton W. Sahr play �Battleship� during a game tournament sponsored by the Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) department aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility on its first operational deployment conducting maritime security operations and support missions as part of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Leonard Adams/Released)

Shipboard Battleship

From pen and pencil to iPad, a favorite guessing game turns 80.

Unmanned Helos Headed For Afghanistan

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Stay Tuned

A new emergency warning system will be tested on Wednesday — 60 years after another radio network warned Americans of Cold War air raids.

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New York to Mumbai, By Way of Amsterdam

A flight of firsts.

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Still Lounging Around Dulles

Mobile lounges celebrate 50 years at Washington’s Dulles airport.

Phobos Bound

On Tuesday a Zenit rocket will launch a probe to the Martian moon Phobos, with the future of Russia’s planetary program riding on the outcome.

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Splendidly-Ended Isolation

After 520 days, the hatch opens for six “Martian” travelers.

SpaceShipTwo: The Story So Far

Progress on the path to suborbital tourism

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