The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has captured dramatic landscapes of the Moon since it was first launched in 2009. A New Moon Rises showcased those breathtaking images from Apollo ...

AirSpace Transcript Season 10 Episode 10: Pancho Barnes. View the transcript as a PDF. AirSpace Theme in then under. Emily: Welcome to AirSpace from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Rickenbacker arrives at a South Pacific island after recuperating from his ordeal adrift on a life raft for 24 days in 1942. Emergency landings on water, more commonly known as “ditching,” become ...

Forty years ago, the Moon received its first human visitors. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle landed, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface. To celebrate ...

The National Air and Space Museum hopes to expand interest and capabilities in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) fields by engaging and empowering our Aviation Explorers to seek ...

The Museum has a Fokker D.VII, one of the combat airplanes most feared by Allied pilots during the Great War. Working in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

The Bug was launched from a four-wheeled dolly that ran on a portable track. In truth, other engineers had already been working on the promising concept, pondering the potential battlefield ...

Meet the first woman to fly jet formations as a Blue Angel. Lieutenant Commander Amanda Lee began her assignment to the Blue Angels as the #3 Left Wing pilot. This year, she is flying the #4 Slot ...

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, ...

One of the images that Heyser captured reveals the presence of medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) in San Cristóbal, Cuba. Heyser’s flight that day, October 14, 1962, revealed that the Soviet Union ...

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 ...

The launch of Sputnik, the first satellite in space, aboard an R-7 rocket. (Smithsonian Institution) The Space Race became a symbol of the broad ideological and political contest between two rival ...