What’s new in aviation and space?
Airplane in Seven Days Jun 24, 2025 By Mark Strauss Aircraft manufacturing doesn’t have
This gallery told the story of the first 40 years of jet aviation (1939-79). Featured were a Messerschmitt Me 262 (world’s first operational jet fighter), Lockheed XP-80, and McDonnell FH-1 Phantom.
origins in Germany and Great Britain on the eve of World War II, turbojet engines have
The National Air and Space Museum gets an X-wing fighter—and a new director.
The F-14 just might be my favorite aircraft, but I have a passion for anything that
In this Air and Space Quarterly exclusive, five U.S. Navy pilots who became the first American women to fly in combat tell their stories.
outlets at the time but has largely been forgotten—and the names of the women have
How an accident gave us the checklist, and safer flying.
You have to accept the fact that things can go wrong, so you have to take steps to
Review projects of the staff of the National Air and Space Museum.
New studies have provided insights into the emplacement processes for recent lava
Scientists are excited about Enceladus as a potential place for life and, more important, as a planet where we can look for life using existing technology and even predict, with some precision, the locations on the icy moon Saturn where we would most likely find this life.
in the surface of the moon’s south pole (bottom row, right), which scientists have
This episode of STEM in 30 will have a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art
It was slated for use with the Me 262 jet fighter, but could also have been fired
An interview with Dante Lauretta, NASA’s principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission. In his new book, The Asteroid Hunter, Lauretta recounts the sample-return mission that brought rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu to back to Earth.
I was also hoping I wouldn’t have to reject anyone else’s choice.
