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Art of the Airport Tower takes you on a photographic journey to airports in the United States and around the globe. Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo explores the varied forms and functions of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
These days, it takes seven hours to fly from New York to London, compared to under three hours flying at twice the speed of sound on the Concorde. When I started my internship at the National Air and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
There is perhaps no résumé in existence quite as long as Barbie’s. One of her oldest and arguably most iconic careers is as an astronaut. Let's take a look through some of her most iconic space looks, ...