Meintest du essen?
The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center turns 20.
Someone else capable of envisioning—and shaping—the future is Steven F.
A message from the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the National Air and Space Museum.
Whatever else I might do with my life, I’ll always “bleed� Navy.
100 years ago Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman to earn her pilot’s license. In part because she was a woman, and especially a woman of color, Bessie had to travel all the way to Europe to get her flight training. Today on AirSpace, we’re looking back on Bessie’s experiences in France and Germany in the 1920s and exploring just how far she went to earn her historic license (and inspire generations of pilots along the way).
) She couldn’t find anybody to provide her with that training the way everybody else
A former Blackbird pilot now volunteers at the National Air and Space Museum.
We could not share with our families or anybody else what we were doing.
A preview of the upcoming Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall.
Robert Van Der Linden Where else can you see the first aircraft to break the sound
Eileen M. Collins, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, was the first woman to be the pilot on a NASA space shuttle flight. She recently spoke with Air & Space Quarterly senior editor Diane Tedeschi.
Collins wasn’t the first woman in space, but she was first in just about everything else
Pamela Melroy, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, is now NASA’s deputy administrator. During her career as an Air Force pilot, Melroy logged more than 6,000 flight hours, serving in both Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After NASA selected her as an astronaut candidate in 1994, she would be assigned to three space shuttle missions, and she is one of only two women to ever command a space shuttle. Melroy recently spoke about her long career in aerospace with Jennifer Levasseur, a curator in the National Air and Space Museum’s department of space history.
Hey, if you’re really crushing any one of those things, then probably everything else
An interview with Chris Reddersen, a restoration specialist at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
trying to figure out how to rig an aircraft for display in a gallery—and no one else
When you hear ’space race‘ you probably (correctly) think about the 1960s Soviet Union v. U.S. race to put an astronaut on the Moon. But a few hundred years before, the space race was all about Venus.
transit, while it’s going on and that’s great until you start warring with someone else
The mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Melitta von Stauffenberg aircraft over the skies of Germany has finally been solved.
If that was so, someone else must have shot down Melitta, I reasoned Still, something
