AviationAnalysis

The air-taxi test moves into the airport system

Texas’s new demonstration program puts the difficult questions on the ground, in the arrival sequence and between successive flights.

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A Joby experimental aircraft hovers above a desert airfield, with a NASA sensing node in the foreground. — File photograph · NASA / Genaro Vavuris / NASA editorial-use permission · Cropped

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The sporting weekend

Minnesota adds experience before the first snap

Saturday’s roster elevations give the Vikings more options for the Packers opener. The larger test is whether an offseason emphasis on the run becomes a repeatable advantage.

3 min read

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ScienceExplainer

The experiment that brought sunlight’s matter home

A strip of foil on the Moon began a story that continues in carefully sealed containers on Earth. The hardest part of collecting the solar wind may be keeping it useful.

8 min read

Buzz Aldrin stands beside a narrow upright sheet of foil on the lunar surface, with the lunar module behind him. — File photograph · Neil Armstrong / NASA / JSC / NASA editorial-use permission · Cropped

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