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 ...

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 ...

Since the National Air and Space Museum’s building on the National Mall opened in 1976, our guests have been whisked away on adventures in the sky and in space through films in our IMAX theater. 50 ...

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 ...

These days, it takes seven hours to fly from New York to London, compared to under three hours flying at twice the speed of sound on the Concorde. When I started my internship at the National Air and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Before the race to the Moon ended in 1969, both the Americans and Soviets were planning their separate futures in space. After the competitive short-term goals of human spaceflight had been met in the ...