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

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

This helicopter evacuation pod was once used to transport injured patients. Recently, it received extensive conservation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the race to the Moon ended in 1969, both the Americans and Soviets were planning their separate futures in space. After the competitive short-term goals of human spaceflight had been met in the ...

Picture the Earth from above. In your mind's eye, what do you see? Today, we have access to air and space technology that lets us see various views of the Earth with ease. However, before the ...

Katharine Wright played an important role in the early United States aviation industry. The younger sister of Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the first heavier-than-air powered aircraft, she ...

On February 6, 2023, Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, participated in a press conference that provided updates regarding the ...

Today the Wright brothers are important historical figures in aviation history. It is easy to marvel at their accomplishments in flight. But Orville and Wilbur weren’t the first in their family to ...

The Saturn V rocket, the launch vehicle for the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s and 1970s, remains the largest and heaviest rocket ever successfully launched. It stood 363 feet tall (taller than ...

Many know Orville and Wilbur Wright as the “Wright brothers” – the first people to build and fly a heavier-than-air powered aircraft. The success of the 1903 Wright Flyer is perhaps one of the most ...