Air & Space - 2012 January
Complete issue of the "Air & Space" magazine January 2012.
Content:
FEATURES:
1 Visionary + 3 Launchers +1,500 Employees = ? - Will the strategies of SpaceX founder Elon Musk add up to cheap access to space?
BY ANDREW CHAIKIN
A Pearl Harbor Mystery - How a 1940s Interstate Cadet trainer sent a famous airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit.
BY JOHN FLEISCHMAN
The Kids Are Trying to Crash - It's the only way to fly high-strung, remote-control models if you want to be Extreme Flight champion.
BY PRESTON LERNER - PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK FADELY
HOW THINGS WORK:
Dropping in on Mars - Landing a one-ton laboratory on another planet takes ingenuity - and a good braking system.
BY TONY REICHHARDT - ILLUSTRATION BY HARRY WHITVER
Design by Rutan - A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM SUGAR
Pointer & Shooter BY OEBBIE GARY - A pilot-photographer pair proves once again: Two heads are better than one.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM KOEPNICK - FLYING BY BRUCE MOORE
The Second-Moon Theory Were there once two moons in Earth's sky?
BY DAMOND BENNINGFIELD
The Other Air Forces - If you could judge a country by its flying force...
STORY ANO ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRUCE McCALL
The Candle Lighters - What it was like in the blockhouse the day a team of missileers launched Alan Shepard into space.
BY TONY REICHHARDT PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL R. BROWN
and more...
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Magazine
many photos
very good condition
Washington D.C. - 2012 - Smithsonian Institution
Art.Nr. 16430
