“Going to a theater, with that large of a screen, really makes you feel like you’re part of it, and I think that’s what was ...

One of my favorite displays at the National Air and Space Museum, where I began my Smithsonian career, has always been the Wright Flyer. The humble aircraft and its improbable flight still spark ...

Last year, we reported on the restoration of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM)’s Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik inside the ...

Four decades later, astronaut Marsha Ivins and cinematographer James Neihouse reveal stories from the making of the ...

Local aviator Fred Wiseman made the historic mail flight in 1911 between Petaluma and Santa Rosa. Local museum honors him and ...

Reaves' observations are especially relevant for the impressive array of aviation posters in the National Air and Space Museum's 1300 artifact collection. Quite possibly the largest publicly-held ...

The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...

Attracting millions of people each year, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum contains a trove of celebrated aircraft, including Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B, the Apollo 11 Command ...

The National Air and Space Museum in DC plans to complete the renovation of its facilities in 2025—the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II—and introduce new exhibits at that time.

U.S. Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, filed the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, which would allow the ...

“An all-female mission tends to be something that NASA has avoided in assignments because it seems like a stunt,” says Margaret Weitekamp, a curator at the National Air and Space Museu ...