Explore the science of space exploration. Pupils consider technological advances in propulsion, communication, power, navigation, and imaging. They select one of these areas and create a timeline of historical progress that contributed...

This site has extensive information about the U-2 Airplane Incident, including many first hand sources such as telegrams and memorandums.

How does an airplane stay aloft when upside down? This media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site offers an explanation based on Newton's third law of motion.

Learn about the Dayton, Ohio brothers who are credited with inventing and flying the world's first successful airplane.

Learn about the Malaysia Airlines plane that has gone missing and what authorities and the airline are doing in an attempt to find the missing aircraft. Includes video. [2:06]

Learn about the changes that have occurred in commercial jet travel since 1958, when jet passenger service began in the United States.

Raw data has been released on the missing flight MH370. Includes video.

NASA was preparing feverishly for a moon landing in a race against the former Soviet Union to honor slain president John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge for the country to land a spacecraft on the moon (and return safely) before the end of the...

Learn about the life and work of the first American woman to become a licensed pilot and the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

Encyclopedia Britannica provides a short biography of Amelia Mary Earhart, the first person to fly from Hawaii to California, and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Learn numerous fun facts about the first powered airplane flight by the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation.

Read about the controversy that emerged over the authenticity of Samuel Pierpoint Langley's flying machine, and the response of the Wright Brothers to attempts to usurp their place in history. This is a transcript of a radio broadcast.