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Getting to know our asteroids.
A few random thoughts on Day 11 of Endeavour‘s last flight
Last night NASA made one last attempt to contact the Spirit Mars rover, which got stuck in the sand two years ago and hadn’t been heard from since March 22
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Presidential Pronouncements on Space: Some 50th Anniversary Thoughts
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s special address to Congress
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During World War II, the Smithsonian Institution aided the war effort in many different ways
Shuttle Notes: A Papal Visit, and a Photo-Op
In this time of endings for the space shuttle, there are still a few firsts left
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They’re a lot younger than the airplane.
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A joint celebration of flight.
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A new kind of cockpit
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Scenes From the Shuttle: Greetings!
Just one space shuttle flight left to go.
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Orbital orphans wander the galaxy.
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A Brief History of Unmanned Aircraft
From bomb-bearing balloons to the Global Hawk
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These absurd aircraft must be seen to be believed
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-adj 1. next to the last
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She thought she’d like to fly again. And so she flew. Helene Dax, 87, a former pilot, had filled out a survey form at the Brookdale Senior Living center where she lives in Denver. Brookdale, which caters to people challenged with Alzheimer’s and dementia, and Jeremy Bloom’s Wish of a Lifetime found…
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Young Visitors Inspire Old Scientist
A perennial hand-wringing topic among policy geeks is America’s decline in math and science proficiency.
Gamera, you’ll recall from Japanese horror movies, was a giant, fire-breathing, flying turtle that used to terrorize Tokyo (and battle Godzilla) back in the 1960s.So what else would students at the University of Maryland—whose mascot is a terrapin—name their flying contraption, which yesterday appe…
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It’s upon us.
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Crossing the Atlantic by Balloon (and Other Means)
When Jules Verne’s novel Five Weeks in a Balloon: or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen was translated into English in 1869, it appeared with this publisher’s note: “So far as the geography, the inhabitants, the animals, and the features of the countries the travellers pass ove…
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First look.
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