Bring the Air and Space Museum to your learners, wherever you are. Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. Discover our exhibitions and participate in programs both in person ...
The Museum’s podcast, AirSpace, is preparing a special limited series called 50 Years of Air + Space that will dive into the Museum’s history, its nearly completed renovation, and its plans for the ...
The space age was born 100 years ago when Robert Goddard launched a rocket from a Massachusetts field. When golfers launch their tee shots at the ninth hole of the Pakachoag Golf Course in Auburn, ...
Looking beyond the functionality of camouflage, a new form of art seemed to emerge from the interesting patterns and colors used to keep airplanes undetected. A French-made SPAD XIII that was assigned ...
Visit one of the most popular museums in the world to explore the history of aviation in space, from the first airplane, to the first people to walk on the Moon, and beyond. Field trip groups are ...
People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. While the destination is the same, the goals are more ambitious. The program’s ...
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 you get dressed for the day, you have to think about what the weather is going to be like that day and what you'll be doing - Is it cold outside? Is it sunny or cloudy? Are you going to play ...
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 ...
Rockets launched the Space Age. They provided the power needed to take spacecraft and people on flights beyond the Earth. Starting with the launch of the first satellite Sputnik in 1957 and continuing ...
Picture the Earth from above. In your mind's eye, what do you see? Today, we have access to air and space technology that lets us see various views of the Earth with ease. However, before the ...
Marlon D. Green fought and won the right to fly as a pilot for a major United States airline—a triumph during a time when segregation often kept Black people out of what were at the time all-white ...