Apollo 8, which launched on December 21, 1968, was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. While the crew did not land on the Moon's surface, the flight was an important prelude to a ...

Join Museum staff and members of the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club for a view of the night sky through our telescopes. Stargazing will take place outside in the bus parking lot at the Steven F.

The activities below explore the bursts of energy that are important and helpful in the world of air and space. Combustion is simply the process of burning something! For combustion to happen, you ...

The historic Pan-American Goodwill Flight of 1926 and 1927 through Mexico and Central and South America was intended to improve relations with Latin American countries, to encourage commercial ...

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.

Artist Alma Thomas created paintings inspired by space, including a painting called “Blast Off!” inspired by the Apollo mission to the Moon. How are you inspired by blasts and bursts in air and space?

Present day Mars is cold and dry with water mostly locked up as ice in the polar caps or in the subsurface. Abundant evidence, in the form of dry valleys, channels, deltas, and lake beds, exists for ...

Are you curious about the night sky? Come to the planetarium at the Museum in DC for a live, guided tour of what you can see after sunset. The facilitator will answer questions and customize the ...

Throughout their history, posters have been a significant means of mass communication, often with striking visual effect. Wendy Wick Reaves, the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery Curator of Prints and ...

This is a one-quarter segment of the primary mirror used in laboratory testing of the Large Optics Demonstration Experiment (LODE). The Department of Defense in 1977 initiated R&D into a space-based ...

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