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Air & Space Magazine

Practicing for Mars in New Mexico, a team of roboticists and scientists descend into Big Skylight Cave.

Mars, Underground

Looking for life on other planets? Go deep.

The "Readers' Choice Category Winner" for the 3rd Annual Air & Space Photo Contest.

Third Annual Photo Contest Winners

The year’s best shots, from astronomy to military aviation.

The Piper Cub

Ten Great Moments in Aerospace History

And you can learn about all of them in one trip to the National Air and Space Museum.

Gerard P. Kuiper, founder of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

Who ‘Created’ Planetary Science?

Is there a single founder of this discipline?

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Typhoon Season

Typhoons can occur throughout the year, but are most active starting in May through October. This image of Typhoon Soudelor was taken from the space station in August 2015.

Bob Harder writes books from the basement office of his home in Chicago. After leaving the U.S. Air Force in 1970, he went into retail management and became a private pilot and flight instructor.

Onboard the Enola Gay

A new book examines B-29 pilot Paul Tibbets’ friendship with his bomber crewmates.

Flying in and out of sandbars comes easy for Alaska’s bush pilots.

Alaska’s Skyboys

Cowboy pilots and the myth of the last frontier.

Air & Space Quiz: The Airplane That Beat King Kong and Other Trivia

Normally, the ARED exercise machine is one of the astronauts’ favorites. Right now: No joy.

Some Words About ‘Some Words’

The astronauts’ preferred term for “instructions”

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P-6 in Formation

A squadron of Curtiss P-6E aircraft. Photograph from the Ray Wagner Collection at the San Diego Air and Space Museum.

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Globemaster Fill-Up

A Royal Australian Air Force KC-30A re-fills up the tank of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III.

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Tiny Drones Use Static Cling to Perch

A new way for micro-UAVs to get that much-needed rest.

The New York Times Tours Pluto

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Twenty-Five Years Ago, Helen Sharman Traveled to Space as a Private Citizen

A decade before space tourist Dennis Tito, the British chemist answered an ad and won the trip of a lifetime.

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Space Balloon

NASA released this beautiful image of the Bubble Nebula, which is seven light years across, to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Air & Space Quiz: History of the Blue Angels

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P-59 Rear View

A Viking lander of the 1970s being prepared for sterilization in an oven.

Ask the Astronaut: Could an astronaut on Mars affect the planet’s evolution?

Inside Mission Control at JPL.

Virtual Tours of NASA Centers

Stromatolites in Shark Bay, Australia, give us an idea of how life looked two and a half billion years ago on Earth.

New Insight Into the Early Atmosphere of Earth

The rise of oxygen in a thin Earth atmosphere and the deepening of a paradox.

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