The National Air and Space Museum welcomes the arrival of the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk "The Overachiever", which was ...

National Air and Space Museum will host a press preview of two newly renovated galleries — “At Home in Space” and “Modern Military Aviation.” Christopher Browne, John and Adrienne Mars Director, ...

A backup version of Skylab was displayed when the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened 50 years ago. After renovation of the building, the artifact is once more on view in a new gallery ...

A Long Island kid who loved Charlie Brown and the New York Mets would one day repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Attention air and space fans traveling to DC: Your wait will soon be over. From historic early flight to futuristic planet exploration, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on the National ...

America by Air at the newly renovated Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Courtesy Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum) Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age (Courtesy ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has opened five newly transformed galleries to the public on July 1, 2026, marking a major milestone in the museum’s ongoing $1 ...

The space shuttle era was a time of many firsts for space exploration. Most prominently, it marked the regular usage of the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into low Earth orbit. In its ...