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How I Failed “Purdue’s Got Talent”
Aerospace student at Purdue University anticipates graduation
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The faces behind the visors
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The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative
Meet Richard Altman, the Executive Director
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The EMALS systems gets off the ground, literally
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Twice as good at it.
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The most celebrated American aviator of 1910 took up flying as an act of revenge.
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The President stretches his legs after a trip on Air Force One.
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For 27 years, the Concorde carried passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at twice the speed of sound, on the very edge of space
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From the Christmas Bullet.
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Every December 17, National Air and Space Museum senior curator Tom Crouch attends the annual wreath-laying ceremony in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, to mark the anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first flight. This year I tagged along. Our first stop was the Outer Banks History Center in near…
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Flying under a lunar eclipse.
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I was surprised by these photos, but I shouldn’t have been.Most pictures of Russian space crews in the Soyuz TMA vehicle show them squished together like sardines, sitting side by side on their launch “couches.” I’ve always wondered how they can move their arms, let alone get anything done, during …
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Not for a few hours last night.
Lots of space station astronauts have narrated video tours of their digs in space. This one, by current ISS commander Scott Kelly, struck me as more intimate, like a friend showing you around his new house:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4dG9vSyUFQSpeaking of Kelly, the recent slip of his twin brot…
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Can we afford to return to the Moon?
We are almost at the end of a year that has seen major changes in our space program.
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…know they’re cool.
What looks like Ronaldo’s nightmare is in fact the world’s largest soccer ball airship, built by E-Green Technologies of Kellyton, Alabama. Why, you ask? It seems everyone’s crazy about airships these days, for everything from military surveillance to tourism. E-Green just signed a deal with NASA’s…
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The second half of the space station Expedition 26 crew headed off to work this afternoon, as Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, Italian Paolo Nespoli, and American Cady Coleman were launched on the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Coleman, a two-time shuttle astronaut, began her six-mont…
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