An important figure in women's aerospace history was misnamed for decades: An often-circulated photo of a Black woman sewing an Apollo spacesuit was labeled as Hazel Fellows, when it was actually Jean ...
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. You ...
As visitors enter the National Air and Space Museum’s recently reopened Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, an incredible collection of hanging artifacts draws their gaze upward. Throughout the hall, a ...
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 ...
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.
Aircraft manufacturing doesn't have to be a commercial activity. How long does it take to turn a pile of parts and sheet metal into an airplane? A group of aviation enthusiasts—many of whom lacked any ...
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 ...
The Ranger 7 robotic spacecraft was a major turning point in the race to the Moon. After 13 consecutive unsuccessful attempts for the U.S. to take images of the lunar surface, on July 31, 1964, Ranger ...
On August 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to study the Sun and its environment. Since then, Parker has sped through the inner solar system, equipped with a suite ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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