Every hour of every day, aerospace technologies impact our lives — in the United States last year, more than 450 million people took a plane somewhere, 28 million attended airshows, and nine million visited the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, the most popular museum in the country. Tragically, recent top news stories include the large scale loss of life in the crash of airliners operated by TWA and ValueJet.

Other stories literally dominating the mass media are the ship-to-station collision on Russia's Mir (as well as its aftermath), the landing of Pathfinder on Mars with subsequent exploration by its rover, Sojourner, and ongoing controversy and investigation into the TWA 800 disaster, one year later.

Information about the aerospace world, good news and bad, means headlines and network lead stories. It also generates an enormous amount of Internet activity: NASA estimates 100 million hits on its web sites during the Pathfinder landing!

AeroSpaceNews.com carries viewers into a world most of us only dream of — hurtling off the deck of an aircraft carrier into a tropical sunset, weaving through Hong Kong apartment buildings on final approach into Kai Tak International, test flying exotic prototypes, riding in the cockpit of a new fly-by-wire jumbo-jet — AeroSpaceNews.com is the story of high technology risk-takers and uncommon bravery.

In its early days, aviation was such a popular and important subject that newspapers assigned staff writers to provide in-depth coverage. Today, television programs feature popular entertainment, business, and sports stories covered by specialists. Considering the public's fascination with stories about massive military actions, new, low-cost satellite launchers, stealth fighters and bombers, it is clear that the time has come for a new approach to the important and far-reaching aerospace world.

Our solution: AeroSpaceNews.com — a worldwide aviation, space and military news and feature web magazine highlighted by engaging text and stunning graphics — as well as webcast over the Internet.