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.

September 8 is the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. On September 8, 1966, the first airing Star Trek (CBS, 1966 – 69) in the United States took place, marking the beginning of one of the biggest sci-fi ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be ...

As the Apollo program took form in the early 1960s, NASA engineers always kept the safety of their astronauts at the fore in light of the enormous risks they knew were inherent in the goal of landing ...

Who were the first American women to fly? To earn their pilot’s licenses? What are their stories? Meet the determined women who took to skies at a time when opportunities for women were severely ...

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 ...

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 ...