Science fiction heroes aren't usually humanities professors, but Arrival (2016) is the exception to that rule. Amy Adams stars as Dr. Louise Banks, who may be the only person on Earth who can figure ...
Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. In her new book, On a Mission: The Smithsonian History of US Women Astronauts, Valerie Neal confirms what we’ve known all along: Astronauts ...
Capt. Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez looked to his left. He saw the other airplane up close: green and brown camouflage and a bright Iraq flag painted on the tail. No doubt about it: That was a MiG-29, the ...
If you are traveling somewhere new, you are more than likely going to need some form of map to get there. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave the United States a mandate: Before the decade was out ...
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. For ...
Paso 1: Pliega el papel a la mitad por el lado más largo, para crear un rectángulo bien delgado. Ese será el largo de tu tira cómica. Paso 2: Ahora deberás hacer tres viñetas para la tira cómica. Para ...
On May 20–21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh piloted his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic. The former air mail pilot and barnstormer flew from New York to ...
How skill and rigorous training helped pilots endure when ditching was the only option. Only two of the four large propellers were still turning as the Boeing B-17D slowly descended in the ...
When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Astronauts and cosmonauts stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) from 2011 to 2018 shared ...
A little over a year ago, I recounted the restoration of our German V-2 ballistic missile. Now the Preservation and Restoration Unit at our Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is completing its compatriot, ...
When NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka rode Space Shuttle Discovery into space on shuttle mission STS-51-C in 1985, he made history on several counts. He was the first Asian American astronaut, the first ...
A prominent artifact in the upcoming Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air gallery will be the Museum’s P-51D Mustang (Air Force serial number 44-74939), painted as Lt. Col. Frederick H. Lefebre’s ...
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