The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) is dedicated to responsibly lending artifacts for exhibition to increase access to the Museum’s premier collections. Through our lending program, ...
People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. While the destination is the same, the goals are more ambitious. The program’s ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos. On a snowy New Year’s afternoon in 1925, on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., astronomer Henry ...
After decades of service, a legendary tanker says farewell. I’m seated in the tail of a U.S. Air Force KC-10 that is climbing to 25,000 feet somewhere over Big Sur. Looking out from the boom ...
The dangers of powering military aircraft with nuclear energy. Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S. Air Force ...
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. This ...
*This is the second blog in a two part blog series of the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. Read part one.* High-priority projects, such as the XB-35 all-wing bomber, distracted Northrop’s engineering team ...
On February 6, 2023, Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, participated in a press conference that provided updates regarding the ...
Kalpana Chawla, PhD, was an engineer, pilot, and astronaut who spent more than 30 days in space over two Space Shuttle missions. Chawla was born in Karnal, India, and was fascinated by flight since ...
Fifty years ago, on December 19, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific. They were the last humans to visit the Moon—and the last to be more than 400 miles from the Earth. Since ...
The Saturn V rocket, the launch vehicle for the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s and 1970s, remains the largest and heaviest rocket ever successfully launched. It stood 363 feet tall (taller than ...
If you have read the book The Right Stuff or watched the movie with the same name, you may know a thing or two about the Mercury program—which was NASA’s first human spaceflight program. And of course ...
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