The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has captured dramatic landscapes of the Moon since it was first launched in 2009. A New Moon Rises showcased those breathtaking images from Apollo ...

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 ...

The National Air and Space Museum hopes to expand interest and capabilities in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) fields by engaging and empowering our Aviation Explorers to seek ...

Field trip groups are required to reserve free timed-entry passes to visit the museum.. If you reserve a group program, passes will be automatically reserved for your group. Up to two reservations of ...

Meet the first woman to fly jet formations as a Blue Angel. Lieutenant Commander Amanda Lee began her assignment to the Blue Angels as the #3 Left Wing pilot. This year, she is flying the #4 Slot ...

How a cartoon beagle helped popularize NASA’s Apollo program. A Snoopy doll sold in 1969 wears a spacesuit and carries a flight safety pack, reflecting his role as a mascot for NASA’s Space Flight ...

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, ...

One of the images that Heyser captured reveals the presence of medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) in San Cristóbal, Cuba. Heyser’s flight that day, October 14, 1962, revealed that the Soviet Union ...

Construction of the USS Shenandoah began on February 11, 1922. The airship’s first flight was on September 4, 1923. But while the Saturn V would fulfill its promise of opening a new chapter of ...

Commercial landers signal a new era in lunar exploration. At the new Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh, visitors can tour a lunar habitat, design a mission patch, and even build their own model rovers.

The launch of Sputnik, the first satellite in space, aboard an R-7 rocket. (Smithsonian Institution) The Space Race became a symbol of the broad ideological and political contest between two rival ...

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.