Rethinking black boxes

By Ben Iannotta March 27, 2025

Supporting you with journalism and more

By Ben Iannotta March 21, 2025

First, on a personal note, it’s been an honor to lead this magazine to deliver...

Florida’s space man

By Ben Iannotta March 21, 2025

Florida’s Space Man Florida is home to the world’s busiest spaceport, but retired U.S. Space...

Turning science into action against wildfires and climate change

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2025

Human factors loom large in aftermath of deadly D.C. air collision

By Ben Iannotta January 30, 2025

Why did the helicopter crew seem not to see the jet?   The search for...

NASA wants to keep an unbroken American presence in low-Earth orbit

By Ben Iannotta January 7, 2025

In this issue: From Kwajalein to Mars in 40 pages

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2025

Chaos tamer

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2025

Two possible space strategies for the Trump administration

By Ben Iannotta December 1, 2024

Seeing our principles at work

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2024

Hurricane Milton

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2024

Mission designer

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2024

Looking forward by looking back

By Ben Iannotta September 1, 2024

What the age of nuclear testing can teach us

By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2024

Putting Artemis spending in perspective

By Ben Iannotta June 1, 2024

My takeaways from Design/Build/Fly

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2024

Mr. Brown’s experiment

By Ben Iannotta April 1, 2024

The multiple meanings of the word of the decade

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2024

First Vulcan Centaur lifts off with ULA’s future in sight

By Ben Iannotta January 8, 2024

Sparking your imagination to start 2024

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2024

FROM THE EDITORS: Aerospace America marks a milestone

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2024

The year we woke up to AI and the need for strong space launch governance

By Ben Iannotta December 1, 2023

In this issue: space traffic to net-zero, with lunar paving in between

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2023

Three predictions for our techie future

By Ben Iannotta October 1, 2023

Why do we fear flying more than driving? Here’s a hunch

By Ben Iannotta September 1, 2023

Balancing act

By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2023

What aviation’s small environmental footprint should and shouldn’t tell us

By Ben Iannotta June 1, 2023

SpaceX shouldn’t be afraid to slow down

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2023

U.S. Space Command’s role in missile defense looks poised to grow

By Ben Iannotta April 18, 2023

The moon to stay? Colonize Mars? Let’s get serious about this

By Ben Iannotta April 1, 2023

Podcast: A deeper look at aerodynamic lift

By Ben Iannotta March 2, 2023

Bringing DEI into our journalism

By Ben Iannotta March 1, 2023

Straight talk about comets

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2023

So you think you know lift? Better read this

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2023

Pondering our technical future in what we see today

By Ben Iannotta January 3, 2023

Meet your AIAA candidate for president-elect

By Ben Iannotta January 3, 2023

Why the obvious cover choice was the right one

By Ben Iannotta December 1, 2022

Meet Midnight: Archer Aviation unveils the design of its production aircraft

By Ben Iannotta November 17, 2022

It’s time to replace those hurricane cone graphics

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2022

A close look at the moon, space traffic and electric air transportation

By Ben Iannotta October 1, 2022

Will we fly like the Jetsons? Journalism can tell us

By Ben Iannotta September 1, 2022

Speeding up the innovation game

By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2022

The risks of Mars Sample Return

By Ben Iannotta June 1, 2022

Why aerospace needs nerds, elite and the woke

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2022

Lessons from DARPA’s Gremlins and NASA’s Space Launch System

By Ben Iannotta April 1, 2022

NASA unveils its moon rocket

By Ben Iannotta March 17, 2022

The value of failing now and then

By Ben Iannotta March 1, 2022

Advanced air mobility for regular people

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2022

Space racer

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2022

Changes at Aerospace America; applying science to rocket pollution

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2022

A hard decision in a year of multiple aerospace breakthroughs

By Ben Iannotta December 1, 2021

A note to “all the crew of spaceship Earth”

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2021

The light and dark side of Inspiration4

By Ben Iannotta October 1, 2021

Daredevils vs. entrepreneurs

By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2021

NASA’s “red-letter day”

By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2021

Aviation’s overdue embrace of bold innovation

By Ben Iannotta June 1, 2021

Shifting from study to action on the climate

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2021

The stakes of reusability

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2021

SpaceX just launched astronauts on recycled hardware

By Ben Iannotta April 23, 2021

Podcast: Biomedical research – the case for doing it in space

By Ben Iannotta April 20, 2021

Fresh energy for decarbonization

By Ben Iannotta April 1, 2021

Inspired by living things

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2021

For the Biden team, a “wicked” aerospace problem

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2021

Making progress despite pandemic

By Ben Iannotta December 1, 2020

2020: the year we looked outward in a new way

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2020

For ISS and air travel alike, layered defenses are best

By Ben Iannotta October 1, 2020

The broader significance of sampling Mars

By Ben Iannotta September 1, 2020

Meet our new columnist

By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2020

Innovating our way back into the air

By Ben Iannotta June 1, 2020

Why the airlines must get it right

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2020

Closing the aerospace disconnects

By Ben Iannotta April 1, 2020

Pentagon issues long wish list to industry, including technologies for stratospheric, hypersonic flight

By Ben Iannotta March 31, 2020

Learning from the astronomer’s heartburn

By Ben Iannotta March 1, 2020

Jerry Grey, founding publisher and editor emeritus of Aerospace America

By Ben Iannotta February 28, 2020

Jerry Grey, Aerospace America’s founding publisher, dies at 93

By Ben Iannotta February 7, 2020

A tale of two FAAs

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2020

The burgeoning space economy

By Ben Iannotta January 1, 2020

Unfinished business

By Ben Iannotta November 25, 2019

Don’t say “UFO”

By Ben Iannotta November 1, 2019

Deep space could jolt how we see ourselves

By Ben Iannotta October 1, 2019

Visionary leadership

By Ben Iannotta September 2, 2019

Apollo 11 and what’s ahead

By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2019

The audacity of 2024

By Ben Iannotta June 1, 2019

Looking beyond rockets and airframes

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2019

U.S. aims to deter space warfare by preparing for it

By Ben Iannotta April 10, 2019

Leading in aerospace

By Ben Iannotta April 1, 2019

For innovators, a balancing act

By Ben Iannotta March 1, 2019

Aerospace motivator

By Ben Iannotta March 1, 2019

Flying commercial

By Ben Iannotta January 31, 2019

Mass producer

By Ben Iannotta January 31, 2019

AIAA presidential candidates strike some common themes

By Ben Iannotta January 2, 2019

Putting technology to work

By Ben Iannotta November 30, 2018

Balancing coverage of space and aviation

By Ben Iannotta October 31, 2018

Quantum physics and the International Space Station

By Ben Iannotta September 27, 2018

The story in Florence’s eye

By Ben Iannotta September 20, 2018

What Apollo 11 says about our future

By Ben Iannotta August 31, 2018

Out of the fish bowl

By Ben Iannotta August 31, 2018

Fast action on vertical lift


By Ben Iannotta July 1, 2018

Bell’s innovation chief outlines mobility strategy

By Ben Iannotta June 28, 2018

Introducing the Aeropuzzler

By Ben Iannotta May 31, 2018

Beating Silicon Valley at its own game

By Ben Iannotta March 30, 2018

In defense of a balanced space portfolio

By Ben Iannotta February 28, 2018

Hearing directly from the experts

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2018

Taking on delamination

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2018

Leading Langley

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2018

AIAA Executive Director Dan Dumbacher interview

By Ben Iannotta February 1, 2018

The human factor in science and technology

By Ben Iannotta January 2, 2018

The angel in the details

By Ben Iannotta November 30, 2017

Aviation made easy

By Ben Iannotta October 30, 2017

Lessons from Harvey and Irma

By Ben Iannotta September 28, 2017

High-impact research

By Ben Iannotta August 31, 2017

The unexpected impacts of collision avoidance

By Ben Iannotta May 31, 2017

Michael Donnelly, project manager for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx

By Ben Iannotta May 19, 2017

Aerospace America 2.0

By Ben Iannotta May 18, 2017

In defense of “drones”

By Ben Iannotta May 1, 2017

Measure twice, cut once 
on space matters

By Ben Iannotta April 17, 2017

Earth-observer in chief

By Ben Iannotta April 17, 2017

A new meaning for green

By Ben Iannotta March 6, 2017

At the center of the X-plane revival

By Ben Iannotta February 9, 2017

The art of timeliness

By Ben Iannotta February 9, 2017

The year of living tenaciously

By Ben Iannotta February 4, 2017

Managing NASA’s “special task”

By Ben Iannotta January 27, 2017

Fresh help for severe-storm forecasters

By Ben Iannotta January 26, 2017

Paul Voss, an educator who may have influenced the FAA’s drone rule

By Ben Iannotta November 22, 2016

Seizing an ‘incredible opportunity’

By Ben Iannotta November 22, 2016

A Gettysburg Address for new space

By Ben Iannotta November 22, 2016

Triton: Flying high, flying low

By Ben Iannotta November 22, 2016

Glimpsing the future of flight

By Ben Iannotta November 22, 2016

Taming NextGen

By Ben Iannotta October 18, 2016

Cost Control

By Ben Iannotta October 14, 2016

Can this man’s team get us to Mars?

By Ben Iannotta September 13, 2016

Highlights from AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2016

By Ben Iannotta September 13, 2016