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Uno spettacolo di dieci aeroplani.
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SETI @ 50: Are We Getting Anywhere?
Most people date the modern Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to Frank Drake’s Project Ozma, conducted in 1960 using the giant dish at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.Today through Wednesday, at an NRAO workshop, SETI-ologists will review where th…
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September 11, 2001 was not the first time that all air traffic in the United States was halted.
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Plans for a big rocket moved forward.
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Today, two asteroids pass the Earth at a fairly snug distance. One, 2010 RX30, went by just before 6:00 a.m. EDT about 154,000 miles above the northern Pacific Ocean. That’s equivalent to three-fifths the distance to the moon. The other one, 2010 RF12, goes by just after 5:00 p.m. EDT, above Antarc…
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The day Claude Grahame-White thrilled the crowd at the Boston-Harvard meet.
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Even an engine can become artwork.
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Plymouth Rock: 90 Days in a Minivan
At first I was excited to read press reports of a Lockheed-Martin concept for a bare-bones human asteroid mission, using a pair of Orion capsules yoked together. Finally, a near-term plan! Because the Orion is mostly built, the first “Plymouth Rock” mission could fly as early as 2016, nine years ea…
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In a 2004 interview, an RAF hero recalled encounters with friends and enemies during the Battle of Britain.
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We’ve been to the moon. Mars is easy. But landing on Venus? That’s tough.
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Pégoud Flies Upside Down, 1913
French aviator Adolphe Pégoud ranks as one of the best and bravest pilots in history, and he knew how to wow a crowd. On this day in 1913 he introduced a trick that scared even other pioneers of flight—he flew upside down, for an audience at the Juvisy aerodrome outside Paris.A correspondent descri…
Sightings: Guess That Airplane
Sightings: Guess That Airplane
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Above & Beyond: The Oldest Powered Flying Machine?
Above & Beyond: The Oldest Powered Flying Machine?
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Why would the Japanese need a two-seat Ohka?
Avi Loeb: The Origins of Galaxies
Theoretical Astrophysicist, Harvard—Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Then & Now: Mercury Unmasked
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A veteran reporter describes his search for the aircraft of Area 51
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Microgravity’s mysterious side effect: Stuff disappears
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Readied to transport the first U.S. ICBMs, the Douglas C-133 had a peculiar habit. It kept crashing.
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