A firsthand account from the manager of Washington Reagan National Airport on 9/11 reflects on the chaos of that morning, the ...

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, we're revisiting an episode from Season 3. In "Me and the Sky ...

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.

In 1978, Congress passed a law allowing airlines to set their own fares and routes, an event that transformed the commercial airline industry and the passenger experience. Regulation by the federal ...

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first human-made object into space: Sputnik, a satellite. Sputnik contained a radio transmitter that sent back the “beep-beep-beep” heard around the ...

For the museum’s blog series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, I have focused on the Museum’s art collection and the embedded meanings in the paintings of Robert Jordan ...

Born in 1976 in London, Ontario, Jeremy Hansen cannot remember a time when he did not dream of being an astronaut. Seeing a picture of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface, he wondered what it would be ...

When we talk about putting on or taking off a spacesuit, we frequently use the terms “donning and doffing.” These are technical terms that are used to refer to the practice of putting on (donning) and ...

Concentration of force refers to gathering your resources in an overwhelming show of force against the enemy. It is the essential to successful military action. Germany’s surprise attack and swift ...

At the National Air and Space Museum, as elsewhere around the world, we were enormously saddened when we learned that Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, had died of ...

Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran was the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. At the time of her death in 1980, she held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any other pilot in ...

The story of Christina Koch’s journey from childhood dreams of being an astronaut to floating outside the International Space Station sounds like a classic tale of the modern age. And soon, she will ...