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Maintaining F-86 Sabre jets in Korea, circa 1952-1954. (Photo by Richard Rash, SI 97-1357)
The Korean War often gets lost in the commemorative gap between World War II and Vietnam, but it was the first major conflict of the Jet Age, and has...
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Jerrie Cobb, one of the Mercury 13, circa 1963. Courtesy NASM.
China has selected its first two female astronauts, Space.com recently reported . But, unlike their male counterparts, females have to be married. "We believe married women would be...
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With time running short for the space shuttle, NASA has come up with a way for the masses to journey with astronauts on the vehicle's two remaining voyages. Granted, it's still impossible to actually hitch a ride to orbit, but you can...
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CNN.com readers responded enthusiastically to a report of a flight attendant sitting in for an ill co-pilot with quotes from Airplane:
Selected comments:
musishun Timmy, have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Zykman...
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Photo: JAXA
We had hoped that Japan's IKAROS solar sail would work as advertised, and it did . Here's an animated image of the fully deployed sail, taken by a separation camera from a short distance away.
In other happenings:
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Skydiving is turning into skygliding—who wants to fall like a stone when you can fly like a bird? Or, we should say, a bat well, most accurately, a flying squirrel.
In recent years, with the help of special suits that incorporate webbing from the...
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The 1909 Wright Military Flyer. Courtesy NASM.
The two-seat biplane looks somewhat flimsy. Sure, it was cutting-edge in 1909 when the Wrights demonstrated it for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Meyer. But how would it fare during World War...
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Artist s concept of Hayabusa (left) and its sample return capsule plunging to Earth. Don t ask about the trip.
If Hayabusa were a human explorer instead of a spacecraft, the first thing it might do on Sunday after returning to Earth from a...
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Engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have built a Distributed Flight Array —self-assembling, yet—that could someday be used to airlift objects. See it in action:
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Bowersox on board the space station in 2002.
Most of the credit for Friday's near-perfect launch of the new Falcon 9 rocket rightly goes to Elon Musk, whose unusual blend of vision, competence, and almost compulsive candor (what other aerospace...
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SpaceX CEO and chief designer Elon Musk could be forgiven if he feels a little under-appreciated on the eve of his Falcon 9 rocket 's first launch (liftoff is scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow from Cape Canaveral).
The guy has been trying...
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Mars 500 s hatch: Abandon Earth, all ye who enter here.
Three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian walk into a simulation chamber and don't come out for 17 months.
That's pretty much the idea behind Mars 500, which starts tomorrow...
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Several people received minor injuries when the powerful rotors of a Marine Corps V-22 Osprey, landing at a Staten Island park during a Memorial Day aerial demonstration, created mini-tornadoes of dirt, brush, and debris. Air & Space hereby bestows...
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Artist s rendering of the Battle of Britain Beacon.
To mark this year's 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force Museum has begun initial planning for a new exhibition building, tentatively called the Battle of Britain...
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