As visitors enter the National Air and Space Museum’s recently reopened Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, an incredible collection of hanging artifacts draws their gaze upward. Throughout the hall, a ...

With all available military planes and pilots needed on the front lines of World War II, the U.S. needed to get creative to protect merchant vessels and war ships from threats lurking in the water.

The barnstorming era of flight brought a new kind of entertainment—and danger—to everyday Americans. Test and stunt piloting offered aviators, mostly young men, the thrill of flying and the freedom of ...

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.

We’ve seen it over and over in popular media: some version of an advanced society that travels from planet to planet in spaceships much like we travel the skies in aircraft. They might live on other ...

Some artifacts at the National Air and Space Museum are part of comprehensive object groups. The Museum’s collection tells the story of Robert Goddard, for instance, through some 80 artifacts that ...

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.

Paso 1: Pliega el papel a la mitad por el lado más largo, para crear un rectángulo bien delgado. Ese será el largo de tu tira cómica. Paso 2: Ahora deberás hacer tres viñetas para la tira cómica. Para ...

When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Astronauts and cosmonauts stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) from 2011 to 2018 shared ...

Michael López-Alegría, also known as “L-A,” is one of America’s most experienced astronauts. He has completed six space missions so far and commanded three of them, spending 296 days (about 9 and a ...

The world-famous event ends its 60-year run with excitement, nostalgia, and tragedy. Six decades—that’s how long they’ve been racing in Reno, Nevada. Six decades of outrageous speed. Six decades of ...

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