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Air & Space Magazine

MESSENGER flies past our nearest planetary neighbor this month.

Eyes on Venus

MESSENGER flies past our nearest planetary neighbor this month.

This Saturday at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Say Goodbye to the Tomcat

This Saturday at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Great Britain's first jet trainer.

Meteors in Flight

Great Britain’s first jet trainer.

Opportunity nears the edge of a giant Martian crater.

Big Hole Ahead

Opportunity nears the edge of a giant Martian crater.

A revealing new view of the famous Face on Mars.

Losing Face

A revealing new view of the famous Face on Mars.

Cassini looks back at its home planet.

The Earth and Moon From Saturn

Cassini looks back at its home planet.

Frank Schelling's 1918 Curtiss JN-4H Jenny takes the prize at Reno.

Winning Jenny

Frank Schelling’s 1918 Curtiss JN-4H Jenny takes the prize at Reno.

An international crew heads to the International Space Station.

Baikonur Sendoff

An international crew heads to the International Space Station.

Cassini captures the dim light from a distant moon.

Dione Exposed

Cassini captures the dim light from a distant moon.

Boeing's Large Cargo Freighter takes to the sky.

Wide Load

Boeing’s Large Cargo Freighter takes to the sky.

The space station gets a new set of solar arrays.

Power Boost

The space station gets a new set of solar arrays.

Generations of air power were on display during a recent Heritage Flight.

Snapshot: Memories Over Manhattan

Generations of air power were on display during a recent Heritage Flight.

...looks like the last one.

NASA’s Next Moonship

…looks like the last one.

AAU CubeSat was a student satellite project at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, initiated in 2001. A second version is already in the works.

How small can satellites get and still be functional?

From Nanosats to Femtosats.

The powdery lunar soil was great for making footprints, but was a problem for astronauts like Charlie Duke, shown here during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. It got in their eyes and throats, and clung stubbornly to every surface.

Stronger Than Dirt

Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy—dust.

Orbital platforms can bolster or challenge global climate change theories. Satellites have confirmed a 500,000- square-mile reduction of Arctic Sea ice since 1979.

Keep Watching the Ice

Meet the satellites bringing data to the discussion of global warming

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Flameout

Why the fire in a perfectly healthy jet engine can die.

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Norman Rockwell’s Ghost

The most artistic collaboration of the entire Apollo program.

Feathers ruffled, a "Turkey" rests on the deck of the Harry S. Truman while a Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk hoists in supplies for the carrier population.

Tomcat Tribute

The Navy’s fearsome fighter retires.

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Swing Wings

It’s all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).

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