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Air & Space Magazine

Air & Space Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Airline History

Reid Wiseman finds a little peace and quiet in the station’s Destiny lab.

Ask the Astronaut: Is it quiet onboard the space station?

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Astronaut Welcome Wagon

NASA’s renowned photographer Bill Ingalls took this shot of personnel with a Russian MI-8 helicopter at the Zhezkazhan Airport in Kazakhstan as they prepare for the arrival of the Soyuz capsule with astronaut Scott Kelly, returning from a year aboard the space station in March.

Greg Johnson, asleep during the STS-125 mission.

Ask the Astronaut: After your return to Earth did you have trouble sleeping?

Getting ready for the first launch from Vostochny.

Watch the First Launch from Russia’s New Siberian Spaceport

Blast off of a Soyuz rocket is at 10:01 Eastern U.S. time.

The first Airbus A321 built in the United States, formally branded a USA321, makes its maiden flight over Alabama’s Mobile Bay last month.

Airbus Delivers Its First Passenger Jet Built in the U.S.

The European company’s new plant in Alabama ships its first product.

Artistic depiction of an astronaut on the Martian surface. Will it be reality in 2040?

Ask the Astronaut: Do we have the knowledge to send humans to Mars?

The author in the library of the Royal Astronomical Society in London with Cassini’s 1679 map of the Moon.

Lunar Resources: Beyond the Fringe

A recent meeting in London suggests that more people are coming to accept the idea of using space resources.

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Beihai in Thermal Vision

The ASTER instrument on the Terra Earth observing satellite took this image in infrared wavelengths of Beihai, a seaport on the Gulf of Tonkin, China.

The Forgotten Sport of Balloon Jumping

For some reason this bizarre pastime never really took off.

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All Aboard United

Passengers board a United Air Lines Ford Trimotor.

Saturn as seen by Cassini: Some of you dust particles aren’t from around here, are you?

Dust From the Great Beyond

Interstellar grains seen by the Cassini spacecraft lend support to the old panspermia hypothesis.

This artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-sized planet to orbit a distant star in a habitable zone.

Ask the Astronaut: Have you ever seen UFOs from orbit?

LightningStrike, ready for takeoff.

Lightning Strikes for the First Time

Aurora’s X-plane takes to the air.

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Spyplane Incoming

A U-2S comes in for a landing at Royal Air Force Fairford in England. Read another story about the famous spyplane in The Case of the Runaway U-2 in our April/May 2016 issue.

With their active jets of gas and dust, comets are not easy places to explore.

Future E-Gliders Could ‘Fly’ on Airless Worlds

A NASA advanced concepts grant explores aeronautics without the aero.

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Blue Martian Dunes

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has imaged these sand dunes five times, watching as they slowly change from the two wind sources converging over them.

The eagles have landed. National Aviation Heritage trophies are lined up in front of the airplane that won the 2013 People’s Choice Award as well as a trophy in the large airplane category: a 1954 Grumman G-111 Albatross, owned by Joe Duke of St. Augustine, Florida.

Historic Airplane Competition To Skip Reno, But There’s Always Next Year

If past winners are any guide, some of the most magnificent vintage aircraft flying today will compete for awards in 2017.

The space station as seen from Atlantis on the last space shuttle mission.

Ask the Astronaut: Can you feel the movement of the space station?

The Golden Record, shown here with its cover that has instructions on how to play it (upper right), was carried on Voyager in the section indicated with the yellow circle on this artist's impression.

What Would You Have Put on Voyager’s Golden Record?

An author puts together his own “Earthling mixtape” in a new book.

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