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 ...

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 ...

Balloons From their early beginnings, balloons soon soared to great heights. They became useful tools in the fields of art, science, and reconnaissance. In 1860, James Wallace Black conducted the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Famed designer Mark Birkigt was from Switzerland, but his aircraft engines were built elsewhere. Hispano-Suiza engines were built in company factories in France and Spain, but also under license in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) will welcome up to 30 teachers from across the United States each summer. Teachers will remain with the program for two summers, ...

The invention of the balloon struck the men and women of the late 18th century like a thunderbolt. Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, ...