Our Archives Department supports the Museum’s mission and assists scholars and researchers by acquiring, preserving, organizing, and describing the documentary evidence of aerospace history.
including documents, photographs, motion picture film and video, and more than two million
The Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS) at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum houses a Planetary Image Facility that contains hardcopy images ranging from the Ranger missions in the early 60s through Mars Curiosity mission. The purpose of the image facility is to act as a reference library providing planetary science researchers with access to the extensive collection of image data obtained from planetary missions.
Full Disk NASA’s Voyager 1 took this photograph of Saturn on Oct. 18, 1980,34 million
The German U-boat offensive at the time was sinking close to one million tons of
On of the more unique of these missions was the airdrop of over 1 million Humanitarian
Over 500 million people around the world watched Neil Armstrong’s televised image
Apollo to the Moon told the historic story of human exploration of the Moon by the United States.
the time the Apollo program ended, it had taken the efforts of more than a half-million
The Fisher AG-7 Space Pen was the result of a "million dollar research program" undertaken
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Udvar-Hazy Center—welcoming nearly 25 million visitors throughout the years—and
provided continuous observation of global weather conditions and generated over one million
Wood Anxious to earn part of the United States government’s unprecedented $640 million
