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“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 ...
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 ...
The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is home to some of the titans of aviation history—think the ...
Local aviator Fred Wiseman made the historic mail flight in 1911 between Petaluma and Santa Rosa. Local museum honors him and the pivotal moment in mail delivery history starting this April.
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 order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.
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 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 ...
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.
This love of learning history continued into my years as a graduate student of history, when I would spend hours at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum learning about the ...