The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to ...

A new generation of aerospace explorers will soon embark on a hands-on summer experience focusing on careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM). This month, NASA’s Armstrong ...

Students from Tropico Middle School in Rosamond, California, build their own paper planes as part of a project during NASA ...

Blackbird gets all the press, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation history record books: ...

And the plane is not only a surveillance platform, as its predecessor, the legendary SR-71 “Blackbird,” was; the Air Force wants ... Weichert, a Senior National Security Editor at The National ...

The Smithsonian is almost ready to open five more of the Air and Space Museum's halls as its 7-year renovation continues.

at the National Air and Space Museum. | Credit: Smithsonian/Mark Avino Other areas of the National Air and Space Museum reopening at the same time include three aviation-themed halls — "Barron ...

Joe Kinego has seen the sun rise in the west. Strapped into the pilot’s seat of the world’s fastest, highest-flying airplane, Kinego could — at 80,000 feet — travel faster than the Earth ...

When the Blackbird entered service with the Air Force in 1966, it was simply too advanced for existing fuel and navigation systems. Few machines have captured the public’s imagination like the ...

said Thursday at an event hosted by Politico that planning to incorporate space-focused Air National Guard missions into the active duty was underway. “We are actively pursuing where do we want ...

But how did these selections get made? Nearly 50 years later, we're teaming up with our friends at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s podcast, AirSpace, to explore what's on the record, ...

Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon will soon be receiving its first Coast Guard aircraft—this HU-25 Guardian—for the collection. [Courtesy: U.S. Coast Guard] It takes an aircraft to deliver an ...