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Composite fuselage sections for Boeing's 787 are being made in four factories around the world.

Alenia’s Gamble

To help build the Boeing 787’s composite fuselage, Italy spends a bundle.

Earhart first crossed the Atlantic in 1928, as a passenger. Four years later, she flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Lockheed Vega. Here, the beaming villagers of Culmore, North Ireland, pay homage to the rising star.

Amelia Earhart, American Idol

When she vanished at the age of 39, she was as big a star as Greta Garbo. Is that why some are still driven to solve the mystery?

James Robbins (front row, right) poses with some of his shipmates. Behind him are Lopez (to the left) and Hendersin (to the right).

Buried at the Bottom of the World

When people die serving their country, to what lengths must a government go to recover the bodies?

Scientist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17.

The Real Reasons We Explore Space

Ambition, curiosity, and a reason the NASA Administrator admits has nothing to do with economic benefit.

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The Library of Congress Manuscript Specialist

Leonard Bruno looks after some of aviation’s most historic documents.

Alenia's robots are major players in building the giant Airbus A380 passenger liner.

Alenia’s Robots

They’re not as wise as R2D2, but robots are essential in building aircraft like the Airbus A380.

Astronaut John Blaha stands inside the Shuttle Launch Experience "crew pod."

Your Space Shuttle Ride Awaits

A new ride at the Kennedy Space Center is — sadly — the closest most of us will come to experiencing the thrill of a shuttle launch.

Why do we have to turn off iPods during takeoff?

Astronaut Sunita Williams strikes a pose during an exercise session on the space station.

STS-117: The Inside Guide

What’s going on beside the spacewalks.

Glacier Girl in flight.

Glacier Girl: The Back Story

How it got trapped in the ice, and how it got out

A DARPA satellite takes a big step toward automated satellite servicing.

It’s Automatic

A DARPA satellite takes a big step toward automated satellite servicing.

A launch this week could advance plans to build a private space station.

Bigelow Dreams

A launch this week could advance plans to build a private space station.

The space station gets a new set of solar arrays, and a new shape.

Shaping Up

The space station gets a new set of solar arrays, and a new shape.

Hubble pictures a distant world and its moon.

Eris, the Dwarf Planet

Hubble pictures a distant world and its moon.

Spacewalking astronauts add solar arrays to the space station.

Power Up

Spacewalking astronauts add solar arrays to the space station.

More than 50 airplanes will be onhand at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center June 16.

Become a Pilot Day

More than 50 airplanes will be onhand at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center June 16.

An array of infrared telescopes returns the first photo of the surface of a sunlike star.

The Shape of Altair

An array of infrared telescopes returns the first photo of the surface of a sunlike star.

The jet engine pioneer would have turned 100 today.

Happy Birthday, Frank Whittle

The jet engine pioneer would have turned 100 today.

Crop mazes (not circles) celebrate an advanced (not alien) mode of transport.

Field of Dreamliners

Crop mazes (not circles) celebrate an advanced (not alien) mode of transport.

The Deep Impact mothership will capture information on the comet's freshly exposed primordial interior.

Ice Age Impact?

Scientists report evidence for a big impact in North America just 13,000 years ago.

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