One of my favorite displays at the National Air and Space Museum, where I began my Smithsonian career, has always been the Wright Flyer. The humble aircraft and its improbable flight still spark ...

Four decades later, astronaut Marsha Ivins and cinematographer James Neihouse reveal stories from the making of the ...

Following the successful restoration of a German V-2 ballistic missile, the museum’s Preservation and ... Kislak World War II in the Air gallery, set to open in 2026. Deployed in far greater ...

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

The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in ... to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins orbited above inside the Command Module, Columbia.

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 ...

To visitors, however, it is one of the most popular objects in the National Air and Space Museum. “It” is the lunar Touch Rock, one of only three samples returned by the Apollo astronauts that ...

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 ...

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.

The museum is located at 1100 Spaatz St. inside the Wright Patterson Air Force Base. This area of the base is open to the public. The National Museum ... missiles and a space-themed gallery ...