10.20.11 - San Jose high school science teacher Marita Beard shares her experiences after an astronomy flight on NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory.
10.18.11 - Third annual airborne science mission to collect ice thickness data over the Weddell Sea, Getz and Pine Island glaciers and related Antarctic areas.
10.17.11 - Auto-GCAS software and a small Piccolo autopilot turn a hobby-grade, radio-controlled model plane into a high-technology flight research aircraft.
10.18.11 - Famed Air Force test pilot Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager recalled highlights of his test-flying days for the camera at a number of locations at Edwards AFB.
10.13.11 - Scientists on NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory have begun the third year of Operation IceBridge airborne research missions over Antarctica's ice sheets.
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10.12.11 - Retired spacecraft to be ferried to LAX, then towed on surface streets to Exposition Park museum in downtown Los Angeles.