Art of the Airport Tower explores contemporary and historic air traffic control towers in the United States and around the world.

Plan your group visit to the National Air and Space Museum with engaging field trip programs for all ages, including hands-on labs and science demonstrations.

Forty years ago, the Moon received its first human visitors. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle landed, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface. To celebrate ...

This is a diagram of the 1903 Wright Flyer Engine. The engine had no fuel pump, carburetor, spark plugs, or throttle. Yet the simple motor produced 12 horsepower, well above the Wrights’ minimum ...

The mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Melitta von Stauffenberg aircraft over the skies of Germany has finally been solved.

When NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka rode Space Shuttle Discovery into space on shuttle mission STS-51-C in 1985, he made history on several counts. He was the first Asian American astronaut, the first ...

Explore how and why spacesuits were made the way they were, how their design changed over time, and what future spacesuits will look like for astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars.

Heyser’s flight that day, October 14, 1962, revealed that the Soviet Union had begun building launch sites for nuclear missiles about 100 miles off the coast of Florida and was protecting those sites ...

After the competitive short-term goals of human spaceflight had been met in the 1960s, many advocates of space exploration envisioned a permanent human presence in space.

However, before the development of practical aircraft photography, aerial views of the Earth were obtained in different ways. Our first looks at the Earth from above came from kites, rockets, balloons ...

Kalpana Chawla, PhD, was an engineer, pilot, and astronaut who spent more than 30 days in space over two Space Shuttle missions. Chawla was born in Karnal, India, and was fascinated by flight since ...

When the Apollo 17 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 50 years ago, they were the last humans to visit the Moon. NASA’s Artemis program is set to return humans to the Moon, but not for two ...