Curtiss XF9C-1 Sparrowhawk, photographed on April 27, 1931. (Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. 80-G-466289.) ...

A dedicated team of professionals developed the equipment and managed the project, which resulted in a new generation of pressure suits and parachute systems, the establishment of protocols for ...

Physical Description Two cufflinks and three shirt studs for mess dress shirt. Silver plated.

Step outside of the Air and Space Museum and into the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection in San Francisco, California to explore the symbolism of tattoo body art during World War II.

The distribution and character of lobate scarps on the Moon indicate that the most likely reason for their formation is global contraction of the Moon caused by interior cooling.

Conservator Lauren Gottschlich explores the conservation work recently done on a replica of the altered lithium hydroxide filter used during the Apollo 13 mission.

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.

However, before the development of practical aircraft photography, aerial views of the Earth were obtained in different ways. Our first looks at the Earth from above came from kites, rockets, balloons ...

Mars massive dust storms that periodically engulf and continue to puzzle planetary scientists—and pose threats to future expeditions. NASA’s beloved solar-powered rover, Opportunity, was killed in the ...

Gene Kranz is best known for his stellar performance as flight director for the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. But Kranz is also known for another thing: his white vests. Kranz’s vests had legendary ...

In May 2017, a team of eight 3D scanning experts from the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office and collections staff from the National Air and Space Museum set out to capture a comprehensive 3D ...

This image depicts the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun, and the width of the Moon and the Sun. Not to scale.