CURRENT ISSUE

October/November 2018

Features

To fly through the apex of a storm, NASA needed to raid the boneyard.

When a launch goes bad, how do you save the crew?

The high-speed, high-G Soviet classic showed airshow fans why Phantoms feared MiGs.

Lynn Rebuck

What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.

With barely a year left in the decade, three astronauts knew it was up to them: Keep Kennedy’s promise or kill it.

Through a long-ago correspondence, a young boy met the last living pilots of World War I.

Mark G. Dziak

Soundings

Using NASA satellites, scientists are learning to predict malaria outbreaks.

Above & Beyond

Take a road trip to Rhinebeck, New York.

Paul Esterle

Interview

Can Scaled Composites design a practical—and affordable—way to put payloads into orbit?

Terry Dunn

In the Museum

Stops on a tour through America's hangar: The Blériot and the Camel.

Reviews & Previews

How one man ruled NASA for 30 years.

A&S NEXT

I love my job, and here’s how I got it.

A&S NEXT

One can only imagine what the MiG pilots thought.

A&S NEXT

With 56 test launches, a Georgia high school team had the data to win big.