The idea to donate the dishes to the National Air and Space Museum came after Matos-Puente visited the St. Louis Science Center in 2018. “While touring the exhibits, I passed by a display of what ...

At 8:15 pm on Monday, April 26, 1920, two men took to the stage of the Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Each man had been given 40 minutes ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has announced the next phase of gallery openings at its flagship building in Washington, D.C. Five new exhibitions, the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and ...

Join us as author Melissa Trempe reads her book Ladybug Launch: Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space. Discover how Natalia and class of girls from Chile convinced NASA to send ladybugs for a ...

NASM's aircraft was used primarily for FAC missions. It flew hundreds of sorties and suffered damage from enemy ground fire on at least four occasions. On one, a bullet punctured the left wing and in ...

This glimpse into the future is made possible by Astrobotic Technology, which houses the museum in the front of its sprawling 47,000-square-foot headquarters. Astrobotic is one of several private ...

Unfortunately, with the airships’ huge size came massive maintenance and refueling expenses, not to mention ground crews the size of small armies to handle landings and moorings. Safety became a ...

In 1939, the Fairchild Aircraft Division employed just 288 workers at one location, Plant 1, in Hagerstown. With no heavy industry in the town, the wartime expansion of manufacturing required a ...

The name Gerard K. O’Neill doesn’t have the same name recognition as some more famous space popularizers such as Wernher von Braun, Gene Roddenberry, Sally Ride, and George Lucas. Even though he was ...

Learn about moon landings past and future!Meet Team Artemis 18 astronauts have been chosen to serve on Team Artemis, the next group of astronauts to go on moon missions. The Artemis missions will ...

The National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) will welcome up to 30 teachers from across the United States each summer. Teachers will remain with the program for two summers, ...