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The National Air and Space Museum has opened five more of its renovated galleries, including two showcasing space artifacts.
The days may be winding down, but the events certainly aren’t. Here's your guide to weekend attractions at the 72nd EAA ...
I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...
With flight simulators and hundreds of aircraft on display, the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, is what aviation ...
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum announced the opening of five new galleries on July 28 in Washington D.C.
To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce.
Smithsonian/National Air and Space Museum (NASM 2003-4818) When you hear the name Robert H. Goddard—an American physicist and engineer—what probably comes to mind are his experiments with rockets.
The Smithsonian could lose the iconic space shuttle Discovery to Texas as part of President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill. Pictured, astronaut Steve Robinson maneuvers under the shuttle ...
The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum could lose the iconic Discovery space shuttle to Houston if a pair of Texas senators get their way. President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration ...
France formally retired the last of its Boeing KC-135 tankers on 30 June, bringing to an end an operational run with the type which began in 1964.
The Space Shuttle Discovery would move to Texas under President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, according to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Cornyn’s office said in a statement on his ...
Smithsonian officials also dispute claims that the federal government still owns the shuttle since ownership was transferred to the National Air and Space Museum.