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 ...

The new World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation exhibition will use fascinating artifacts and the distinctive sights and sounds of early combat aircraft to tell the story of how remarkable people ...

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.

Over the years the Museum's Conservation Unit has received grant funding from the National Collections Program to help care for our most vulnerable artifacts. These projects showcase the artistry and ...

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 ...

Field trip groups are required to reserve free timed-entry passes to visit the museum.. If you reserve a group program, passes will be automatically reserved for your group. Up to two reservations of ...

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 ...

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 ...

How a cartoon beagle helped popularize NASA’s Apollo program. A Snoopy doll sold in 1969 wears a spacesuit and carries a flight safety pack, reflecting his role as a mascot for NASA’s Space Flight ...

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