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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | North American P-51C, "Excalibur III": On May 29, 1951, Capt. Charles F. Blair flew Excalibur III from Norway across the North Pole to Alaska in a record-setting 10½ hours. Using a system of carefully plotted "sun lines" he developed, Blair was able to navigate with precision where [...]

At Foo Camp, Google flew the Google Earth Plane over and took the Google Eye View. Supposedly, this’ll go into the real, normal, human Google Earth imagery next month. There’s a Cylon raider in there and Space Invaders, and lots of camper’s lying on their backs facing up. I’m in there somewhere.. Here are photos [...]

Ian, Sara, and Ivy stand in the boulder field at the base of Devils Tower National Monument. A huge UFO flew overhead just as I snapped this photo but whizzed out of sight before I could get the camera pointed at it. Some men in black suits showed up shortly afterward and pointed flashing objects [...]

Parts of the U.S. and Mexico are seen in this image photographed by one of the Expedition 29 crew members from the International Space Station as it flew above the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 16, 2011. The Salton Sea is in the center of the frame, with the Gulf of Cortez, Mexico’s Baja California and [...]

Editor’s note: Happy Saturday to all! More great night images went up today from the International Space Station. Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ Aurora Borealis steals the scene in this nighttime photograph shot from the International Space Station as the orbital outpost flew over the Midwest recently. Cloud cover makes [...]

Much of the Middle East is seen in this night time image photographed by one of the Expedition 31 crew members aboard the International Space Station as it flew some 240 miles above the Mediterranean Sea on June 4, 2012. The Nile River Delta is easily recognizable in center frame, and city lights make it [...]