Restoring every artifact. Transforming every experience. Go behind the scenes of the renovation of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
building’s exterior and infrastructure will be revitalized, every object will have
Astronomer Phil Plait recently published Under Alien Skies. We caught up with him in this interview.
Do you have a favorite Hubble image? Yes. No! I mean, I have a lot.
The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, better known as the Huey, remains a powerful symbol of the Vietnam War.
with this object had triggered memories in ways simple reminiscing never could have
A duck in a hot air balloon. A cat in an airship. A lion cub in an airplane. Stories of animals in flight.
Our animal companions have been up in human created aircraft even longer that we
Unusual careers in the aviation and space with behind-the-scenes jobs at the National Air and Space Museum.
evolve, those career paths likewise branch and grow—often in ways we couldn’t have
An interview with Patrick Leonini, the supervisor of photography at the National Air and Space Museum.
When 9/11 happened, Patrick Leonini was in the National Guard, and he could have
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).
He wanted to live on the reservation there, because he would have more rights because
Astronomers are deciphering the violent history of the Milky Way, one star at a time.
Most measurements have come from what may be galactic archaeology’s most-valuable
We report the stories of those who’ve pursued unconventional careers in aerospace.
I have worked in and around aviation my entire career.
As a result, the pieces have been shuffled around a lot and re-built many times.
