Riding the tip of a 100-foot burning cylinder whose useful life is less than your average Marlboro is something you don’t forget, even after three and a half decades.
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/gusmobile-631.jpg)
It didn’t look remotely like a fighter plane. So why did astronauts who flew the Gemini spacecraft compare it to one?
What kind of scoops await TV reporters in the air over Manhattan?
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/counterpunch-388.jpg)
Flying Wild Weasel missions involved a variety of airframes but just one philosophy: Do unto SAMS before they do unto you.
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/92/f1/92f1ef51-5305-4ef4-83e8-d9f5da650747/manned_orbiting_laboratory.jpg)
Meet the MOL-men. Prepared to make space history, these military pilots instead became a footnote to it.
The asteroids are coming! (To a theater near you.)
Science and spirituality do not always travel separate roads. The author finds an intersection in some recent cosmology news.
A look at the technological innovations that place the F-22 Raptor at the top of the aviation food chain.
Houston (and Moscow, Munich, Tokyo, and Montreal), We Have a Problem
Behind the International Space Station will be an international mission control. Can planners squelch cross-cultural problems before they arise?
Part seer, part spy, the financial analyst was at the heart of the aerospace industry’s most turbulent ten years.
Fifty years ago, they worked around the clock to keep Berlin from starving. Now, in a year-long celebration, Berlin invites them back.
It takes a special breed of climber to attempt to conquer Mt. Everest—and a special breed of helicopter pilot to rescue him.
The Battle of Midway, Round Two
During World War II, it was the scene of a pivotal air/sea battle. Now this remote P[acific atoll is girding itself for another invasion.
When a launch runs amok, the forecast calls for partly cloudy, chance of heavy showers of solid rocket propellant.
Capitalism in space: it’s only human.
Coming to America: the Russian Mil Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter.
What can the Kuiper Belt objects tell us about the past and future of our planetary neighborhood?
How an airplane many thought was ahead of its time instead became a victim of its time
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/8b/48/8b485272-d159-4dab-b219-ee216b5b5ffe/glider.jpg)
A dedicated craftsman explores the invention of the airplane by recreating its predecessors.
It’s an astrophysical version of bringing the mountain to Muhammad, and it may revolutionize the field.
Page 315 of 320