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 image depicts the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun, and the width of the Moon and the Sun. Not to scale.

The Smithsonian Institution received a $200 million donation from Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chair of Amazon, and founder of aerospace and space flight company Blue Origin. A portion of the ...

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 ...

Balloons From their early beginnings, balloons soon soared to great heights. They became useful tools in the fields of art, science, and reconnaissance. In 1860, James Wallace Black conducted the ...

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 ...

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, ...

The X-wing was then uncrated in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar, where it sat partially-assembled among other iconic craft in the history of aviation and space, including the Martin B-26 ...

When the Wrights were ready to sell their invention in 1905, their first move was to contact the U.S. government, but initial talks went nowhere. In 1907 the U.S. Army established the Aeronautical ...

“Almost everything about Viking was the first time we had ever tried it,” planetary science and exploration curator Matt Shindell said. “NASA had never landed on another planet. They had never built a ...

During World War II, Brown sought to join the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) but was rejected because of her race. She contributed in other ways to the war effort. Brown and her husband ...