Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his Manhattan home at age 79.

Spirit of St. Louis on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington ... Day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET.

The San Diego Air and Space Museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and is California’s official air and space education center.

Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. To the right and partially visible is the P-61 Black Widow, Northrop’s most successful contribution to World War Two.

Pima Air and Space has the nation’s third largest collection of airplanes, behind the Smithsonian ... Museum is open daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas day from 9 a,m. to 5 p.m ...

A look inside the National Air and Space Museum’s restored P-61 shows that the pilot’s position provided good visibility for night flying. Smithsonian/Eric Long Back then, the prevailing ...

And you can explore all things Apollo 11 on a special website by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum ... Sea of Tranquility at 4:17 p.m. Eastern with barely any fuel ...

The museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Virginia, houses many additional artifacts in an open, hangar-like setting. There is no public parking facility for Smithsonian ... p.m. Early ...

The Smithsonian ... Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. and is open every day except Dec. 25 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Admission ...

A few seconds before 1:27 p.m. CT, the crowd counted down ... of free eclipse glasses distributed by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for the occasion.“We didn’t even know.