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March 2016

Features

NASA thought it knew, until an alarming failure last summer.

The Army’s 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade does a dress rehearsal of a nuclear attack.

The new early-warning system to protect spacecraft from orbiting junk.

An F-22 pilot opens up about the fighter’s first combat.

Some pilots build airplanes just to travel far.

How a research engineer came to lead NASA to the moon.

The Air Force isn’t saying, so we asked other spaceplane experts.

He was one of the great original airshow pilots. Why did he hide his past?

Soundings

Exploring the wreckage of the USS Macon, which went down off the California coast 80 years ago.

Technically Speaking

Above & Beyond

Soundings

Phil Scott

Interview

TV reporter Tom Costello recounts what he’s seen and learned in a decade of covering commercial aviation accidents.

Oldies and Oddities

In the Museum