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November 2008

Features

The next lunar explorers will soon report to Houston. Are some already there?

Boeing's traveling fix-it team has one goal: Get it airborne.

Stephen Joiner

50 indelible images from the first 50 years of spaceflight

The Space History Division, National Air and Space Museum

For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part

Mark Bernstein

From the designers who brought you the P-51 Mustang, an airplane with a complicated past…and a controversial present.

Mark Huber

Think of a shipboard chess game with airplanes instead of pawns.

Mark Wolverton

How tossing paper airplanes guided the career of an aerospace engineer.

Giles Lambertson

A small malfunction lands three astronauts on Russia’s version of the Red Planet.

Don Pettit

The war in the Pacific ended as it began, with a surprise attack by Japanese warplanes

Stephen Harding

Viewport

J.R. Dailey

In the Museum

Michael Klesius

Above & Beyond

CHARLES BRADY

Oldies and Oddities

TIM WRIGHT

Then & Now

Roger A. Mola

Moments and Milestones