At 8:15 pm on Monday, April 26, 1920, two men took to the stage of the Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Each man had been given 40 minutes ...

Physical Description United States Army Air Corps 2nd Bombardment Group Distinctive Insignia; brass shield with four blue enamel aerial bombs depicted in center; engrailed paly of five verticals and ...

After their trip, Spencer and White drew this map of their route, including the unplanned stops.

Home Explore Collection Objects Fabric, Aircraft, "1903 Wright Flyer" Download Image Download Image Download Image 3 Images ...

Taught in the GCA Radar School, 1946-1949 in Boca Raton, Florida and Biloxi, Mississippi. Awarded World War II Victory Medal. Qualified for West Point but did not attend. Wall of Honor profiles are ...

Composite showing Col. Stapp during rocket sled test at Holloman AFB, NM. Test to study effects of bailout at high altitude and supersonic speeds. Photos 1-3 taken during acceleration phase: force = ...

Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were meant to be the third Apollo crew to journey to the Moon on a lunar landing mission. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 astronauts launched from Kennedy ...

The National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) will welcome up to 30 teachers from across the United States each summer. Teachers will remain with the program for two summers, ...

For many, their knowledge of Sally Ride begins and ends at her NASA career and the title of the first American woman in space. After she retired from NASA, Sally Ride utilized her groundbreaking ...

For long distance overseas flight, the flying boat was the obvious solution. As most of the world’s major cities lie along coastlines and have port facilities, expensive conventional airfields were ...

Stardate 1604.01: At 12:01 am EDT this morning, the National Air and Space Museum began breeding tribbles. This bold, innovative, not-at-all-ill-advised experiment will run for 24 hours, until 11:59 ...

The first high-altitude piloted balloon observation missions were launched in the late-1950s as part of the U.S. Navy’s Strato-Lab program. Between 1958 and 1959, the U.S. Navy launched four separate ...