Home The National Air and Space Museum Is Transforming! Bezos Learning Center National Air and Space Museum Bezos Learning Center The Smithsonian Institution received a $200 million donation from Jeff ...

Art of the Airport Tower takes you on a photographic journey to airports in the United States and around the globe. Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo explores the varied forms and functions of ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Science fiction heroes aren't usually humanities professors, but Arrival (2016) is the exception to that rule. Amy Adams stars as Dr. Louise Banks, who may be the only person on Earth who can figure ...

Janice Christensen is remembered for her service during the war. Like thousands of other American pilots in World War II, Janice Christensen received a government-issued flight jacket. Christensen was ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum offers a pop-up experience for visitors to the world's biggest airshow. Chris Reddersen has twice had the privilege of sitting in the cockpit of a ...

Capt. Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez looked to his left. He saw the other airplane up close: green and brown camouflage and a bright Iraq flag painted on the tail. No doubt about it: That was a MiG-29, the ...

Few astronauts were as famous as Jim Lovell—Tom Hanks played him in the 1995 movie Apollo 13. Lovell commanded that ill-fated space mission, which did not land on the Moon in 1970 because an ...

SpaceShipOne didn't need NASA to get to space. On October 4, 2004, thousands of people gathered predawn at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port to bear witness to history—an attempt to claim the ...

Some artifacts at the National Air and Space Museum are part of comprehensive object groups. The Museum’s collection tells the story of Robert Goddard, for instance, through some 80 artifacts that ...