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Virtual Reality Comes to the Space Station
Oculus Rift arrives, as astronauts and cosmonauts send down their first 360 videos.
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Capt. Michael Broch performs preflight inspections on an F-22A Raptor before taking off at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.
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SpaceX Launches from Historic Pad 39A
Commercial rockets take center stage at Cape Canaveral.
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NASA workers pull a Boeing-developed liquid hydrogen-powered demonstrator aircraft, called Phantom Eye, across a dry lake bed at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. The Eye was designed to replace communications and intelligence satellites used on long-endurance, high altitudes missions. The demonstrator will soon go on display at the Air Force Flight Test Museum.
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Ceres Just Got A Lot More Interesting to Astrobiologists
Indigenous organics have been found on the largest body in the asteroid belt.
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Tiny Tech Will Help Drones Stay Safe in the National Airspace
ADS-B equipment is the future of air traffic control. Until now, most drones couldn’t carry it.
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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins catches the moon rising in her view as she orbits Earth in the International Space Station.
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Planet Labs Goes For Record 88-Satellite Launch
The upstart remote sensing company is poised to begin daily whole-Earth photography.
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The art of skywriting is honored on a new stamp from the USPS.
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A New Lander Concept for Europa
Life detection would be a key part of a mission to Jupiter’s intriguing icy moon.
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U.S. and German paratroopers jump together out of a C-130 near Aviano Air Base in Italy.
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F-22 Raptors at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia squeeze in with other aircraft for protection ahead of Hurricane Hermine as it moved up the East Coast in 2016.
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People With Frizzy Hair Are More Likely to Hear the Sound of Meteors
That buzzing, popping, and crackling noise may be real after all.
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PBS’s “City in the Sky” Exposes the Hidden Minutiae of Air Travel
A three-part public television documentary takes viewers to parts of the airport they’ve never seen.
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The Soyuz capsule returns with three astronauts last October 2016.
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In 1912, Mohan Singh Was Billed as “The Only Hindu Flyer in the World”
The strange tale of a barnstormer turned yoga master.
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An aircrew removes a panel from the right horizontal stabilizer of an EC-130H Compass Call at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.
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Before “Hidden Figures,” There Was a Rock Opera About NASA’s Human Computers
Katherine Johnson’s inspirational story came to the Baltimore stage in 2015, thanks to another space scientist.
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A Beechcraft twin-engine performs at the Sound of Speed Air Show in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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To point us to a habitable planet, that is.
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