Before there was R2, however, there was Robonaut 1A, R2’s older sibling. Unlike R2, Robonaut 1A has no legs, but with its ...

Associate Shopping Editor Jessica Cherner was born and raised in Washington DC, and this is her ultimate travel guide to ...

Today’s United States — its possibility, its strength, its divisiveness, its polarization and fragmentation — is encapsulated ...

When the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum was built in the 1970s in Washington D.C., they decided to install a new concept called IMAX. They liked one of our documentaries on ...

America250, the official national organization charged by Congress with commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States, today proudly announced the 2025 "America’s Field Trip" awardees.

Nearly a century after becoming the first U.S. museum dedicated to Asian art, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art ...

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 ...

Spirit of St. Louis on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. [Credit: Eric Long/Smithsonian Air and Space Museum ...

The first class of women Air Force pilots, UPT Class 77-08, L-R: Capt. Susan D. Rogers, 1st Lt. Victoria K. Crawford, Capt. Christine E. Schott, Capt. Kathy LaSauce ...

After more than 40 years of chronicling the nation’s storied exploration of the sky and heavens, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., was, in a word, tired.

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — With the 2024 solar eclipse just around the corner, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum announced resources and activities that it would offer around the ...