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Air & Space Magazine

One of these shuttle astronauts could get the call for a moon mission. Top to bottom, left to right: Terry Virts, mission specialists Robert Behnken, Karen Nyberg, pilots Jim “Vegas” Kelly, Mark Kelly, Pam Melroy, Randy Bresnik, and mission specialist Megan McArthur.

Fly Us to the Moon

The next lunar explorers will soon report to Houston. Are some already there?

Sea Harrier landing. THAT'S gotta hurt.

Oldies and Oddities: The Alraigo Incident

Oldies and Oddities: The Alraigo Incident

Ken Blackburn designs small, unmanned research craft for the military and small, unmanned paper airplanes for everybody.

Toy Story

How tossing paper airplanes guided the career of an aerospace engineer.

After 25 missions, the crew and the Belle went on a War Bonds tour, stopping at Patterson Field in Ohio. Recalling the tour decades later, Commander Robert Morgan wrote: "In today's lingo, our uniforms were dazzling 'chick magnets.'"

Restoration: The Memphis Belle

For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part

With mops and a hose, a crew scrubs a Martin B-26 Marauder bomber in 1944.

Then & Now: Wash Day

Then & Now: Wash Day

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The Challenges of the 21st Century

The veteran space scientist, Farouk El-Baz, looks toward the future.

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Shoot For the Moon

A civilian lunar lander generates high hopes in New Mexico.

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Company Expected

Three more people will soon move into the International Space Station—and they’ll be drinking, um….

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Coming to America

Zeppelin “flightseeing” not just for the Germans.

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Hello, Kutztown!

A sharp new eye in the sky

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Smashing Success

Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy museum gets even bigger.

The PSLV rocket that launched Chandrayaan-1, on its way to the pad.

India Aims for the Moon

A US scientist reports from the scene of India’s first lunar launch.

Steve Hinton flies Rod Lewis's Tigercat to its new home in San Antonio.

Flying Tigercats: And Then There Were Five

A couple of strays join the prowl, and the world’s supply of flyable Grumman F7Fs increases by two-thirds.

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Flight Delay

Economic worries put the pinch on air travel.

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Winged Wraith

Pegasus carries the IBEX spacecraft aloft.

Jet Pack International

Jet-Setter

Look Mom, no wings!

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Mission to Mir

At the start of a new partnership, U.S. and Russian space travelers learn that every long journey begins with a single step.

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Raw Material

A mirror blank, oven fresh.

Boeing XB-15 in flight with a Boeing YP-29. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Big and Slow

The bomber that wasn’t.

A Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury V

The New Crew

Change of shift on board the International Space Station

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