An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

WASHINGTON — Five new galleries to orbit around are coming to the National Air and Space Museum this summer. The museum ...

The Smithsonian National Air Space Museum’s next round of gallery openings is scheduled for this summer in Washington, D.C.

The new and renovated galleries will be unveiled as part of the museum's $1 billion renovation. How to get free, timed-passes ...

the San Diego Air & Space Museum,” said Jim Kidrick, museum president & CEO. “From real Apollo spacecraft to supersonic jets, interactive simulators, historic aircraft, and one-of-a-kind speci ...

In 1988, NASA started making MAGs — Maximum Absorbency Garments — for all its astronauts, said Kiona N. Smith, author of ...

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Recently, Worden was at Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum to sign his new book ... who was the command module pilot on Apollo 11. Mike was the most professional, nicest, most competent guy ...

The auction house also sold a gold Omega Speedmaster that belonged to Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell for $142,664. Though the commemorative gold watches didn’t go to space, several of the Swiss ...

Stefan Osdene, of Madison, stores some of his most prized watches at a Madison-area bank. Osdene recently sold a Speedmaster gold watch formerly owned by Neil Armstrong, fetching an auction price of ...