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.

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 = ...

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.

Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award of the American Astronautical Society, 2008; winner of the Richard W. Leopold Prize of the Organization of American Historians, 2008; winner ...

Following rendezvous with the Lunar Module after its ascent from the lunar surface, the LM Active Docking Target, made by Symbolic Displays Inc., is mounted in the Command Module Rendezvous window ...

Magazine with case. holds 200 feet of 9 1/2 inch film on 9 1/2 x 5 3/16 inch spool; magazine housing contains supply spool, take-up spool; face has built-in vacuum gauge, exposure counter.

Rectangular with upright, straight metal seat in middle and nine inert 5KS-4500 JATO solid fuel rocket motors mounted horizontally in steel rack at rear of sled; sled fitted on both sides with rail ...

Members of the Star Trek starship Enterprise advisory committee take a tour of the Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory. Conservator Malcolm Collum, left, and advisory member Michael Okuda discuss the ...

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.

Alan Shepard's flown spacesuit from Freedom 7. Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history.

A four-engine turboprop Tupolev TU-95 Bear being shadowed by a U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom. Determined to build their own nuclear-propelled bombers, the Soviets modified one of their Bears, the largest ...

This is a 1/15 scale model of the Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis," the plane in which Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo and nonstop from New York to Paris in 1927.