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.

The 1959 conceptualization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lunar program, codenamed Apollo, envisioned manned lunar exploration in the 1970s when NASA expected large ...

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.

For the museum’s blog series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, I have focused on the Museum’s art collection and the embedded meanings in the paintings of Robert Jordan ...

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.

At the National Air and Space Museum, as elsewhere around the world, we were enormously saddened when we learned that Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, had died of ...

Massive dust storms periodically blanket the Red Planet—and we’re still not sure why. Just over 50 years ago, NASA’s Mariner 9 arrived at Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another world.

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. Side View drawing showing the longitudinal and vertical Archimedean screws and central location of smoke stacks for William C. Powers' ...

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.

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 ...

We've wanted to break down black holes on the AirSpace podcast for a while now - if only so that we could better understand them ourselves (they’re among the most mysterious phenomena in the universe, ...

STS-107 crew members lost when space shuttle "Columbia" broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003. STS-107 crew members included astronauts Rick D. Husband (left), mission commander; Kalpana Chawla, ...