The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will host its annual “Innovations in Flight” outdoor display at the museum’s ...

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.

Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile, along with an international crew, completed the first verified crossing of the North Pole ...

The story of Christina Koch’s journey from childhood dreams of being an astronaut to floating outside the International Space Station sounds like a classic tale of the modern age. And soon, she will ...

From his early years in southern California to his career as a naval aviator, test pilot, astronaut, and leader, Victor Glover has spent a lifetime building the experience that now prepares him to ...

The dangers of powering military aircraft with nuclear energy. Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S. Air Force ...

When NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka rode Space Shuttle Discovery into space on shuttle mission STS-51-C in 1985, he made history on several counts. He was the first Asian American astronaut, the first ...

There’s a reason you don’t know the names of the first American women to fly combat missions. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower tore through the waters of the Persian Gulf on November 15, 1994. On the ...

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.

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

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. Maj. Richard Heyser had been sitting 14 miles above the Earth for 5 hours. Soaring at the edge of space, he flew from northern ...

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be ...