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 ...

Joseph Kittinger traveled to the edge of space—and jumped. On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger went for a balloon ride. Sitting inside an open gondola suspended from an enormous helium-filled envelope, ...

Commercial landers signal a new era in lunar exploration. At the new Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh, visitors can tour a lunar habitat, design a mission patch, and even build their own model rovers.

Now on View in Restoration Hangar After Traveling From a Galaxy Far, Far Away. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will display an X-wing Starfighter in the newly renovated building on the ...

Construction of the USS Shenandoah began on February 11, 1922. The airship’s first flight was on September 4, 1923. But while the Saturn V would fulfill its promise of opening a new chapter of ...

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 ...

Next year, the National Air and Space Museum will begin restoring and preserving aircraft in the brand-new Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar, part of the Phase Two complex now under construction at ...

The new film The Aeronauts, released December 6, 2019, by Amazon Studios, is the first in a long time that features a lighter-than-air flight that doesn’t involve either a fiery explosion over ...

In this 2011 Ask an Expert talk, Dr. Roger Launius explores the 1947 Roswell Incident, an event that entangled the United States Army in UFO conspiracy theories that persist to this day. To understand ...

Hell’s Angels, along with Wings and The Dawn Patrol, is considered one of the three great early aviation films that defined the genre. The movie featured authentic aerial combat scenes, innovative ...

Last year I wrote about the Armstrong purse, discovered by Neil Armstrong’s widow, Carol, in their home shortly after Neil’s death in 2012.That stowage bag of small (but historically significant) ...

Long before your laptop computer and the computers that took us to the Moon, there was another type of computer. In the early 20th century, women who made calculations and reduced astronomical data ...