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Guillaume de Ramel flying his SNJ over the Virginia countryside.

WWI Pilot’s Portrait Gets a Special Viewing

For Guillaume de Ramel, a heritage flight last week in Virginia had particular meaning.

The United States won’t be going to the Moon alone. This European Space Agency artist’s conception shows a future lunar outpost built using 3-D printing techniques.

Why We Go to the Moon

It starts with a mission statement.

An artist concept of two neutron stars colliding and creating, among other things, ripples in space-time and a quantity of gold that would make Fort Knox blush.

Gravitational Wave Astronomy Just Became a Team Sport

Observatories followed a ripple in space-time to its source

A Beechcraft AT-6, dropping a 500-pound bomb during 2011 tests.

Thinking Smaller, the Air Force Learns a Thing or Two

After evaluating “light attack” aircraft, the military likes what it sees.

The Moon during an eclipse, with an orange cast.

Did the Moon Once Have a Substantial Atmosphere?

Maybe it wasn’t always as dry and dead as it is today.

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Look Around Chuck Yeager’s Cockpit

A 360-degree view inside the airplane that broke the sound barrier.

Joseph Cione shows a Coyote drone, soon to be dropped into a hurricane from the P-3 behind them.

Meet Coyote, the Latest (and Smallest) Hurricane Hunter

NOAA sends disposable drones deep into storms, where it’s too dangerous for airplanes.

One of 50 tether-equipped nanosats in a proposed asteroid touring fleet.

300 Asteroids in 3 Years

That’s the ambitious goal of a proposed Finnish nanosat mission.

Artist's concept of Planet 9.

Planet 9 Might Be an Immigrant

The question is: From where?

Cosmonauts Shoot First 360 Video of a Spacewalk

Worth watching, but there’s better stuff to come.

Happy passengers deplane from the Pan American Airways Boeing 314 "Honolulu Clipper" in a 1939 brochure. PAA offered weekly service between San Francisco and Hong Kong via Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila, and Macao.

Picturing Pan Am

A gallery of images, in honor of the iconic (and defunct) airline’s 90th birthday.

60 Years Since Sputnik

The satellite that started it all.

Tom Cruise plays a fictionalized version of Barry Seal, a pilot who worked simultaneously for the CIA and the Medellin drug cartel.

Low Flying and High Adventure in the True Crime Movie American Made

Wherein Tom Cruise uses his pilot’s license while on the job.

Helicopter pilots flying over cities have to be extra cautious, as the pilot of this UH-60 (photographed over New York in 2014) undoubtedly was.

Army Blackhawk Collides With Drone Over NYC

The first confirmed mid-air collision involving a U.S. drone.

Many of the so-called "Super Earths" are probably more like gassy Neptune than like our own rocky planet, which doesn't bode well for habitability.

Most Super-Earths Are Likely Not Habitable

That’s the disappointing conclusion from a recent meeting about planetary habitability.

"Ares" program helmets and suits worn by Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain in 2015's The Martian are among the movie items that will be auctioned tomorrow in London.

Indiana Jones’ Biplane and The Martian’s Spacesuit Go Up For Auction

Aircraft and miniatures from The Last Crusade, Battle of Britain, and other films are among the movie props up for bid.

NASA’s Global Hawk aircraft deploys a dropsonde during a test flight over the Dryden Aeronautical Test Range in August 2015.

Dropsondes Go Where Even Hurricane Hunters Fear to Fly

What flying machine could withstand 230-mph winds?

The Apollo 17 landing site, as photographed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009 and 2011. To the left of Challenger’s descent stage (just right of center) are the astronauts' footpaths. To the right are tracks left by their moon buggy.

Preserving Historic Sites on the Moon

A space lawyer says the Apollo lunar landing sites are worthy of legal protection.

Future President of Israel Ezer Weizman was among the pilots who fought in 1948. He's pictured here with an Avia S-199.

Israel’s First Air Force

A new book documents the rise of a formidable fighting force.

Today, buttons are missing, the paint is scratched and peeling, and monitors have fizzled out. Space Center Houston’s restoration will bring them back to their Apollo-era shine.

“Go” for Restoration

Apollo’s mission control is getting revived.

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