An aviation enthusiast retraces the path of Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan’s epic flight across America. Logan, Utah, is a quiet college town in the agricultural community of Cache Valley in northern ...
The barnstorming era of flight brought a new kind of entertainment—and danger—to everyday Americans. Test and stunt piloting offered aviators, mostly young men, the thrill of flying and the freedom of ...
The Smithsonian has the world's only surviving example of a unique Japanese bomber. During World War II, Toshio Ozaki—chief engineer at Japan’s Aichi Kokuki aircraft manufacturing company—designed the ...
Some artifacts at the National Air and Space Museum are part of comprehensive object groups. The Museum’s collection tells the story of Robert Goddard, for instance, through some 80 artifacts that ...
Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. I ...
A new gallery explores how American military aviation evolved, grew, and shaped our world in the years since World War II. One month before the launch of Operation Deny Flight over Bosnia and ...
When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Astronauts and cosmonauts stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) from 2011 to 2018 shared ...
It is perhaps one of the best-known images of the 20th century. Floating free against the velvety blackness of space was Bruce McCandless II. For the first time ever, a human being was able to perform ...
Frederick Drew Gregory, is the first astronaut born, reared, and educated in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC, which is also home to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. He is a ...
The world-famous event ends its 60-year run with excitement, nostalgia, and tragedy. Six decades—that’s how long they’ve been racing in Reno, Nevada. Six decades of outrageous speed. Six decades of ...
Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.
Gerard K. O’Neill, like many scientists of his generation, viewed the United States space program, particularly the Apollo missions, with great interest. When NASA allowed citizen scientists to become ...
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