This fragment was part of the heat shield of Gemini 8, which carried astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott into orbit on March 16, 1966. After the mission, Gemini 8's heat shield was cut up for ...

Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were meant to be the third Apollo crew to journey to the Moon on a lunar landing mission. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 astronauts launched from Kennedy ...

Born September 26, 1918. Learned to fly in 1939 in the CPT Program. Flew as a B-17 pilot in 91st BG, 8th AF, credited with 35 combat missions. Flew with MATS Division, ATC from October, 1944 until ...

This glimpse into the future is made possible by Astrobotic Technology, which houses the museum in the front of its sprawling 47,000-square-foot headquarters. Astrobotic is one of several private ...

In the mid 1940s, a young Lyle Tuttle (1931–2019) was lured into the then-underground culture of tattoo art after seeing the intriguing tattoo designs on U.S. servicemen returning home from World War ...

Fayze's schooling was in New Mexico. He was interested in math and science and took all the courses offered. He enrolled in Texas A&M. He left college to enlist in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He ...

In 1951, under the U.S. Army Ordinance, within the EML t the White Sands Proving Grounds became Chief of the Propulsion Branch laboratory. Within his Laboratory the final development of the "Redstone ...

From the time he was a boy in Oakland, CA and watched planes soar over the San Francisco Bay area, Frank knew he wanted to fly. He pursued his dream through the USAF ROTC program at the University of ...

When naval air strategists had crafted the requirements for the new fighter, the need for speed had overridden all other performance goals. With this in mind, the Bureau of Aeronautics selected the ...

Flying the Spirit of Columbus, Geraldine L. "Jerrie" Mock became the first woman to pilot an aircraft around the world. She departed from Columbus, Ohio, on March 19, 1964, and arrived back home on ...

While we work on completing the new Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, you can see select objects from the forthcoming exhibition when entering through our Independence Avenue entrance, including Neal ...

The James S. McDonnell Space Hangar opened in November 2004 and displays hundreds of famous spacecraft, rockets, satellites, and space-related small artifacts. The centerpiece of the Space Hangar is ...