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Air & Space Magazine

Team HAKUTO’s two robotic members, Tetris and Moonraker, get a workout.

Japan’s Co-Op Lunar Mission

Team HAKUTO aims for the moon, and something even more ambitious—opening the space business to everyone.

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Orange Aurora

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Another Way to Land on the Moon

It’s difficult and expensive to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon, so why bother?

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Launching a Hornet

The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia will soon become the premier instrument for SETI.

SETI: Shortcut or Longshot?

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is improving, yes, but don’t give up on other astrobiological investigations just yet.

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Don’t Look Down

A U.S. Air Force search-and-rescue training mission aboard a UH-N1 Iroquois.

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Artist’s Drive, Mars

This photo by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera shows the lower slope of Mount Sharp, a valley called Artist’s Drive.

James Bond has a rough ride in a BN-2 Islander in the newest flick, SPECTRE, which opens in theaters November 6.

The Airplanes of James Bond

The definitive list of every flying machine that appears in the 007 oeuvre.

All X-ray backscatter machines were removed from U.S. airports by June 2013.

Airport Security: “Disappointing and Troubling”

A Congressional hearing highlights problems with TSA screeners. At least the X-ray machines are safe.

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Puma Launch

Marines working with the U.S. Coast Guard launch an RQ-20A Puma from a lake in North Carolina to show how the UAVs can be used aboard small watercraft.

Comac's C919 rolls out

China Rolls Out New Passenger Jet to Compete With Boeing and Airbus

The Comac C919 is unveiled to fanfare, but it’s a very ambitious gamble.

Possible future: Artist’s conception of a vehicle at the Mars surface station, sometime in the 2030s.

Human Mars Mission a “Go” For 2035

NASA takes the first step in a historic journey.

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Kounotori Grapple

The International Space Station’s robotic arm grabs JAXA’s HTV-5 cargo ship, called Kounotori, filled with supplies and experiments. It stayed docked to the station for a few weeks before being refilled with garbage and sent to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

Herculean Fireworks

Artist's concept of early Earth, when things were still hellishly hot.

Life on Earth Is 100 Million Years Older Than We Thought

New evidence points to an origin 4.1 billion years ago.

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Wright Whirlwind

The Long Range Strike Bomber will join the B-2 (above) in the U.S. Air Force bomber fleet.

Northrop Grumman Will Make the Next Stealth Bomber

The ‘bomber of the future’ still awash in secrecy

One of the Museum's most popular models, this replica of the Johnson Monoplane was built in 1959 by Julius and Harry Johnson—who designed and built the original aircraft in 1910.

You Think Your Model Airplane Collection is Big? The Smithsonian Has More Than 4,000

Tiny treasures at the National Air and Space Museum

In 2007, Suter's Produce in Pandora, Ohio, incorporated a space theme into its corn maze, and with good reason. "We're about 30 to 35 miles from Wapakoneta, Ohio, which is Neil Armstrong's birthplace," says Jerry Suter. "We've always been interested in space."

Airplanes of the Corn

Aerospace-themed corn mazes are a hit with tourists.

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U-2 on Approach

The iconic Cold war spyplane has long outlived the Cold War.

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