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A VR Look Inside the Juno Spacecraft

The Hendon Aviators celebrated Gustav Hamel’s and Bentfield Hucks’ successful inverted flights by having an “upside-down” dinner in their honor.

The Upside-Down Dinner

To celebrate inverted flight, the Hendon Aviators ate their meal upside-down and backwards.

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Starry Night

Just a glance at the night sky in this photo from the International Space Station, far from the ambient light from Earth’s cities.

Janette Davis and her son Keith Yoerg inspect their famous relatives’ patent documents.

Wright Brothers’ Long-Lost Patent Gets a Private Family Viewing

At the National Archives, a close look at aviation’s birth certificate.

Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal.

Fran Bagenal’s Excellent Year

Pluto last summer, Jupiter this summer. Where to next for this veteran planetary scientist?

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Sewing the Sunshade

Seamstresses stitch together the sunshade taken to Skylab in 1973. The station’s meteoroid shield had ripped off just one minute into flight, and the resulting thermal heat made the station unlivable and disabled its solar panels. The sunshade was launched and installed just 11 days later.

Takuya Onishi yesterday, about to board his Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft.

Former Japanese Airline Pilot Fulfills Dream to Fly in Space

Astronaut Takuya Onishi scores a first.

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North Pole Cracks

This beautifully detailed photo of the North Pole was taken from an altitude of 500 meters by NASA’s Operation IceBridge team, which is performing a six-year long airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice.

Technicians work on the Juno spacecraft’s solar arrays.

Juno is Powered by the Sun, and That’s a Big Deal

Solar panels for the outer solar system.

The Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark, Jan Brueghel the Elder.

The Cosmic Zoo: Why Animal-Like Life Should Be Common In the Universe

Once biology starts on a planet, there’s a good chance complex organisms would follow.

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Formation Lead

The view of this impressive international formation from a KC-135 refueling aircraft, during exercises over the Baltic Sea, includes a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress in the lead, two Polish air force F-16s, four U.S. Air Force F-16s, two German Eurofighter Typhoons, and four Swedish Gripens.

U.S. Army Maj. Charles Kettles, posing in front of a 121st Aviation Company UH-1H, during his second Vietnam tour of duty, 1969.

Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Awarded Medal of Honor Almost 50 Years Later

Charles Kettles’ act of heroism in May 1967 receives the nation’s highest award.

The Long March 7 lifts off from China's new Wenchang launch center on June 25, 2016.

Continuing the Long March to the Moon

China’s goals and aspirations in space become ever clearer.

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Portrait of a Thunderbolt Pilot

A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot First Lieutenant Kayla Bowers participates in NATO exercises in Bulgaria in March.

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Video: Into the Unknown

Welcome to the biggest, baddest planet in the solar system.

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Storm Forecast

The Hubble Space Telescope is keeping watch on Jupiter’s active aurora.

Juno's engine will burn for 35 minutes to place it in orbit around Jupiter.

Juno’s Do-or-Die Moment: What to Watch For on July 4

A frigate in flight. Some of the juveniles in the study stayed continuously aloft for more than two months.

Can UAV Designers Learn From Soaring Birds?

Frigates use cumulus clouds as a kind of up elevator.

The swarm of dusty comets in this artist's conception is one of several not-entirely-convincing explanations for what's happening around the star called KIC 8462852.

The Mystery of Tabby’s Star

A Kickstarter campaign to study one of astronomy’s most puzzling objects.

One of dozens of amateur images of Jupiter already loaded onto the Junocam site.

The Juno Team Wants Your Pictures of Jupiter

Amateur astronomers are encouraged to send in their best shots.

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