Download Image Four-engine heavy bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage and high-aspect ratio wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forces insignia on wings and aft ...

The front medallion shows various decorative techniques used to convey Earhart’s story: Engraved lines depict the latitudinal and longitudinal lines while the white fill material highlights her dotted ...

The moonquakes resulted from formation and subsequent activity along a relatively young thrust fault crossing the Taurus-Littrow Valley floor, the site of the last Apollo mission in 1972. The fault ...

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. There ...

The 1924 Berliner Helicopter is the world’s oldest intact helicopter. It is currently on loan to the College Park Aviation Museum, appropriately located on the site of the helicopter’s original test ...

Download Image Coin collected by Charles and Anne Lindbergh during their flights. Originally there were one hundred and eighty-four (184) but thirteen (13) were used in two (2) seperate displays, see ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will reopen half of its flagship building on the National Mall Friday, Oct. 14. Eight new and renovated exhibitions, the planetarium, museum store and ...

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.

An external view of the OSIRIS-REx sample-collector hardware shows material from the carbon-rich asteroid scattered across the right side.

No expense was spared in transporting the precious asteroid cargo to Houston. At the Utah Test and Training Range, workers prepare to transfer the sample-return capsule from a truck to a Boeing C-17 ...