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Air & Space Magazine

The 11-foot studio model of the starship Enterprise, designed by Walter “Matt” Jefferies. “Obviously not a primitive ‘rocket ship,’ but rather a true space vessel” went the description in Gene Roddenberry’s script for Star Trek’s original pilot.

Starship Enterprise: The Extended Mission

A half-century after its television debut, notable space and entertainment figures explore the impact of Star Trek.

More than a pretty picture, this mosaic of 126 Cassini frames taken in October 2004 shows rich detail, down to the faint shadows of rings criss-crossing the actual rings.

Last Days at Saturn

For 20 years, Cassini has been exploring the ringed planet. Now it’s time for the team to say goodbye.

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Yokota Jump

Marines jump from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base in Japan.

A screen capture from the forthcoming game "Space Frontier: Dawn of Mars."

This Canadian Museum Has Got Game

Aerospace exhibits for the iPad generation.

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Titan and the Rings

Saturn’s moon Titan appears above the planet’s rings in this image from the Cassini spacecraft.

The Airlander 10, Airborne

Return of the Airship

Whether it floats or flies, it’s the biggest thing in the skies

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Osprey Tag Team

An Air Force and a Marine Corps pilot ready for takeoff in a CV-22 Osprey from Hurlburt Field, Florida.

This photograph of the crew of the CAF's B-17G Flying Fortress "Texas Raiders" was a finalist in the 2015 Air & Space Photo Contest.

Enter our Fourth Annual Photo Contest!

Send us your best shots by November 6, 2016 and win cash prizes.

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Sunset Descent

Photographer Tony Fletcher watched airliners come in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport just outside D.C.

The gondola from Piantanida's Strato-Jump III attempt is on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

The Truck Driver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space

Nick Piantanida, born 84 years ago today, was nothing if not determined.

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Tuscano Takeoff

An A-29 Super Tucano readies for takeoff at Moody Air Base in Georgia.

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Launching a Record Attempt

A balloon carrying the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), a gamma-ray telescope, gets inflated in New Zealand in May to begin what a NASA team hoped would be a record-breaking flight lasting more than 100 days. Unfortunately, the flight ended after 46 days, but the team recovered the instrument in the Peruvian desert and is currently analyzing the data it did collect.

Astronaut Ron Garan photographed a streaking meteor (center) from on board the space station during the 2011 Perseid shower.

How, Where, and When to Watch the Perseid Meteors

If you’re in the right place, all you really have to do is look up.

Lilienthal on one of his thousands of glider flights in the mid-1890s.

The Last Words of Otto Lilienthal

Germany’s “Flying Man” was the most successful aviator of his day.

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Clearing the Tower

A Delta IV rocket launches a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on June 11.

The ambitious Oakland Airport Inn featured 37 rooms, a restaurant, barbershop, and airline ticket office.

Amelia Earhart Slept Here

The country’s first airport hotel opened in Oakland, California, in 1929.

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Hercules Night Flight

An F-35A, piloted by Major Scott "Shark" McLaren from the 461FLTS, over the sea test range at Point Mugu, California, 2011.

Air & Space Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the F-35

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VAB Readies for SLS

The platforms inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center are fitted with the power systems that will allow work on the Space Launch System.

“White smokers” at a deep ocean hydrothermal vent.

LUCA, the Ancestor of All Life on Earth

A new genetic analysis points to hydrothermal vents as the planet’s first habitat.

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