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SHUTTLENAUTS The face of the Space Shuttle Era. READER SCRAPBOOK Check out our scrapbook of readers' aviation and space pictures. Then add your own. SNAPSHOT News and notes about flight and space exploration.

Centennial of Navy Aviation 100 Years, 100 Ways to Celebrate Over the years, the pages of Air & Space have been filled with the adventures of naval aviators: from a collection of love letters, written by Marine Aviator #4 in 1916, to the story of helicopter pilots who fly search and rescue missions from aircraft carriers. On this site you'll hear from the pilots and designers of the most famous Navy fighter that ever flew—the Grumman F-14 Tomcat—and from the first pilots trained to fly the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor. But as broad as our coverage of naval aviation has been, these features alone may not satisfy your curiosity. That's why we've compiled the above list of 100 ways to help the U.S. Navy celebrate 100 years of aviation history. Read more » The Navy's first pilot and 10 more milestones »

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Star City at 50 Change comes to the place where spaceflight was born. More » Z2 The latest in sightseeing tours, brought to you by Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin. More » When Pigs Could Fly The F-111, beloved by pilots in America and Australia, takes to the air for the last time. More »

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The Daily Planet Blog Photo Op for Soyuz Busy days in Earth orbit. Space Shuttle Discovery is set to make its last voyage tomorrow, with liftoff planned for 4:50 p.m. Florida time. If all goes according to plan, Europe's Johannes Kepler unmanned cargo vehicle will have docked with the space station earlier in the day. Read full post »

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