An entire generation came of age with the indescribable awe of landing on the Moon — and the ensuing Golden Age of Space has changed our world forever for the better. More than 50 years later, what is ...

The mission to protect and defend the world's oceans has become far more complex and challenging in recent years, and naval aviation has become increasingly vital to success. One of the greatest ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

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Tempo, mode, the progenote, and the universal root / W. Ford Doolittle and James R. Brown -- Phylogeny from function : the origin of tRNA is in replication, not translation / Nancy Maizels and Alan M.

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington Dulles ...

The largest species of cat in the world, tigers have been a subject and symbol in Asian art and culture for centuries. Historically, tigers existed throughout much of Eastern and Southern Asia, as ...

"Featuring more than 400 detailed photographs, maps and fossil illustrations." "Previously published as part of a larger volume, The world encyclopedia of fossils and fossil collecting."--T.p. verso ...

The “comics” or “funnies” can offer us a daily bit of humor and entertainment in the face of our otherwise regulated and monotonous existence. A comic artist’s success at creating laughter is a feat ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s newly accessioned F-15 will fly in to Dulles Airport and taxi to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ...

Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York will host the traveling exhibition “ Clearly Indigenous: ...