Home The National Air and Space Museum Is Transforming! Bezos Learning Center National Air and Space Museum Bezos Learning Center The Smithsonian Institution received a $200 million donation from Jeff ...
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how we wonder . . . well, where to even begin? How do stars form from gas and dust? Why do some stars go supernova? And what the heck is the "main sequence?" We brought ...
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.
In the first episode of our limited series Home Front, the AirSpace podcast is bringing you the story of the Civilian Pilot Training Program. In 1937, there were fewer than 20,000 licensed pilots in ...
Capt. Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez looked to his left. He saw the other airplane up close: green and brown camouflage and a bright Iraq flag painted on the tail. No doubt about it: That was a MiG-29, the ...
Few astronauts were as famous as Jim Lovell—Tom Hanks played him in the 1995 movie Apollo 13. Lovell commanded that ill-fated space mission, which did not land on the Moon in 1970 because an ...
SpaceShipOne didn't need NASA to get to space. On October 4, 2004, thousands of people gathered predawn at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port to bear witness to history—an attempt to claim the ...
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 ...
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 ...
On May 20–21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh piloted his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic. The former air mail pilot and barnstormer flew from New York to ...
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. Check ...
Just months following the passing of Richard Truly, pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-2, the world has lost that mission’s commander. Astronaut, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and the first ...