During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

“Going to a theater, with that large of a screen, really makes you feel like you’re part of it, and I think that’s what was ...

Last year, we reported on the restoration of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM)’s Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik inside the ...

Attracting millions of people each year, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum contains a trove of celebrated aircraft, including Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B, the Apollo 11 Command ...

The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...

The National Air and Space Museum in DC plans to complete the renovation of its facilities in 2025—the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II—and introduce new exhibits at that time.

Reaves' observations are especially relevant for the impressive array of aviation posters in the National Air and Space Museum's 1300 artifact collection. Quite possibly the largest publicly-held ...

In early 1912, Weldon B. Cooke, pioneer aviator of Oakland, acquired Wiseman’s second airplane, after which the National Air and Space Museum designated it as the “Wiseman-Cooke aircraft” to ...

This is all astronaut handwriting on this," said Neihouse at the end of a panel discussion celebrating the upcoming 40th anniversary of "The Dream is Alive" at the National Air and Space Museum's ...