Two satellite images taken 34 years apart show the decline of Lake Powell. The right image, taken by Landsat 8 in 2018, shows how much Lake Powell has decreased in size since 1984, when the left image ...

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. Join ...

The Air Tractor AT-301/400A was donated to the museum by owner Rusty Lindeman to commemorate the 100th anniversary of agricultural aviation. The Air Tractor was painted to match the scheme of "Dusty ...

MTV used that iconic neon scribbled astronaut as its channel ID for years. And even today the award you get when you win a VMA is a statuette of an Apollo era astronaut, but why is MTV obsessed with ...

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 ...

This past summer, the National Air and Space Museum acquired a test model of the Peregrine Lunar Lander for its forthcoming Futures in Space gallery, which is anticipated to open in 2026. Matthew ...

On August 19, 1942, Fairchild Aircraft Division of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation opened Plant 7, the first unit in the company to employ Black workers, both men and women, as part of ...

Joseph Kittinger traveled to the edge of space—and jumped. On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger went for a balloon ride. Sitting inside an open gondola suspended from an enormous helium-filled envelope, ...

We’ve all seen the breathtaking Hubble and JWST images of our universe, but have you ever wondered how these pictures are made? If you were to travel to the “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula or the ...

At the turn of the 20th century, astronomy got a serious glow-up. On today’s episode, we’re telling the story of how the work of many astronomers contributed to a complete redesign of how big we know ...

On August 6, 2022, the Curiosity rover reached a major milestone on Mars: 10 years of exploring Gale crater. Although getting on in years by rover standards (the Opportunity rover set the record of ...

The Artemis I mission, scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, November 16, at 1:04 am ET, is an uncrewed test flight of NASA’s new Moon rocket – the Space Launch System, aka SLS – ...