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.

Composite showing Col. Stapp during rocket sled test at Holloman AFB, NM. Test to study effects of bailout at high altitude and supersonic speeds. Photos 1-3 taken during acceleration phase: force = ...

Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award of the American Astronautical Society, 2008; winner of the Richard W. Leopold Prize of the Organization of American Historians, 2008; winner ...

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.

Now on View in Restoration Hangar After Traveling From a Galaxy Far, Far Away. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will display an X-wing Starfighter in the newly renovated building on the ...

This month marks 80 years of female flight attendants. It's hard to imagine a time without them, but until 1930, airlines employed male stewards. That changed when Ellen Church, a nurse from Iowa, ...

Commercial landers signal a new era in lunar exploration. At the new Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh, visitors can tour a lunar habitat, design a mission patch, and even build their own model rovers.

Construction of the USS Shenandoah began on February 11, 1922. The airship’s first flight was on September 4, 1923. But while the Saturn V would fulfill its promise of opening a new chapter of ...

Stardate 1604.01: At 12:01 am EDT this morning, the National Air and Space Museum began breeding tribbles. This bold, innovative, not-at-all-ill-advised experiment will run for 24 hours, until 11:59 ...

Hell’s Angels, along with Wings and The Dawn Patrol, is considered one of the three great early aviation films that defined the genre. The movie featured authentic aerial combat scenes, innovative ...

The new film The Aeronauts, released December 6, 2019, by Amazon Studios, is the first in a long time that features a lighter-than-air flight that doesn’t involve either a fiery explosion over ...

Investigate: Video 1: Watch this video to learn more about how engineers designed the Lunar Roving Vehicle used in Apollo missions 15, 16 and 17. Tip: Watch with your grown-ups so they can help you ...