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Glenn and his shuttle crewmates preparing to board Discovery in 1998.

The Voyages of John Glenn

Two trips to space, 36 years apart.

Boom Technology’s supersonic demonstrator will fly in early 2018, testing a new engine design that will eventually power a 45-seat commercial airliner, below, on transoceanic flights.

Baby Boom: A Concorde for the 21st Century?

This Denver-based company wants to revive the supersonic airliner.

One of the best views of the galactic center combines images from the Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra space telescopes. An artist's concept depicts the likely black hole within.

The First Sighting of a Black Hole

We know one lurks at the center of the Milky Way, but to these astronomers, seeing will be believing.

Three Electra Juniors line up for a beauty shot at the 2014 AirVenture.

We Fly the Last Electra Juniors

Seven remarkable Lockheed Model 12s showed up (late) for their diamond jubilee.

F7U-3 Cutlasses crashed on at least four occasions in 1955, the year this photo was taken over New Jersey.

I Was Almost Killed By a Navy Jet on a San Diego Beach

In 1954, a pilotless F7U-3 Cutlass nearly wiped out a crowd of beachgoers.

The Albert Michelson pipeline in California carried light, not fuel. After the experiments, the tube was sold to the city of Irvine for reuse in more mundane purposes.

The Pipeline That Measured the Speed of Light

In 1931, a corrugated steel tunnel figured in one of history’s greatest science experiments.

APRIL 4, 1918: The Airco DH.9’s poor combat performance was due to its deficient engine. The airplane above was assigned to the Royal Air Force 218 Bombing Squadron at Dunkirk. A week earlier, it experienced engine failure.

Lost Photographs of the Great War

In a Moroccan flea market, a photojournalist happens on an inexplicable treasure.

Four years before its mysterious final flight, the Pan Am Stratocruiser 944 appeared in a 1953 ad posing it atop the incomplete Sepulveda Boulevard underpass. The airliner’s fate now makes the L.A. noir setting seem like foreshadowing.

What Happened to Pan Am Flight 7?

Sabotage? Negligence? Fraud? New clues surface in a 60-year-old aviation mystery.

Iomax’s Archangel is derived from the Ayers Thrush, a cropduster.

Return of the Light Brigade

To meet the demands of 21st century warfare, militaries are reaching for a Vietnam-era weapon.

Colleen Barrett is president emeritus at Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines.

From Secretary to Company President

Colleen Barrett is the only woman to serve as the head of a major U.S. airline.

Hawker test pilots (from left) David Lockspeiser, Hugh Merewether, Bill Bedford and Frank Bullen.

A Most Hazardous Occupation

A new book looks at the rich history of British test pilots.

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Ice Shelf Mapping

This photo of the Getz Ice Shelf was taken on NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, which has spent eight years observing the way the polar ice changes.

MIT graduate students load a micro-drone into its deployment canister.

Drones Swarm Like Gnats in Navy Video

In tests conducted last October, three F/A-18s bring 103 friends to the party.

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Medics in the Dust

U.S. Air Force medics double-time off a CV-22 Osprey during training at Melrose Air Force Range in New Mexico.

Who’s a smart boy?

Are Humans Freaks of Nature?

The small but significant gap between humans and other animals on Earth may shed light on why we see no alien visitors.

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Tank Welders

NASA workers weld the interior structure of a liquid hydrogen tank, part of the Space Launch System being assembled at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

A stroll in the woods with ATLAS and Spot.

Surrounded By Robots

A VR field trip inside the Boston Dynamics lab.

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Hello Again, Earth

NASA released a new photo in January from the HiRISE camera (“the most powerful telescope orbiting Mars”) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the Earth and our moon. Read more detail about how the photo was taken here.

Some 18,482 Consolidated B-24 Liberators were built, making it the most produced bomber of World War II.

Free-Falling Above a Burning B-24

Bailing out over Occupied France in 1944.

Jack Link's Screamin' Sasquatch Jet Waco almost seems to blend in with the carpet while on display at the John Klatt Airshows booth. The International Council of Air Shows conference and exhibit hall were held at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas in early December.

The Show Before the Air Show

Without the annual ICAS trade show, there would be no smoke and aerobatics.

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