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Did you know that Calbraith Perry Rodgers, the first pilot to fly across America was partially deaf? Americans with disabilities like Rodgers have made history flying almost since the airplane was ...
From the first "talkies" to the most recent major releases, Hollywood has explored the history and experience of World War I in a variety of films.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.
¿Tienes una conexión con el cielo? ¿En qué sentido el Sol, las estrellas y otros cuerpos celestes pueden ser herramientas útiles? Las personas de distintos lugares del mundo observan el cielo para ...
This first-generation Robonaut, housed at the National Air and Space Museum, was designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA.
This image depicts the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun, and the width of the Moon and the Sun. Not to scale.
Bring the Museum to you through these unique virtual programs for learners of all ages.
This 100-year-old Navy veteran flew PBYs in World War II. U.S. Navy veteran Cash Barber volunteers at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. There is a certain sound of pride in the ...
MTV used that iconic neon scribbled astronaut as its channel ID for years. And even today the award you get when you win a VMA is a statuette of an Apollo era astronaut, but why is MTV obsessed with ...
Commercial landers signal a new era in lunar exploration. At the new Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh, visitors can tour a lunar habitat, design a mission patch, and even build their own model rovers.
Rockets launched the Space Age. They provided the power needed to take spacecraft and people on flights beyond the Earth.
However, before the development of practical aircraft photography, aerial views of the Earth were obtained in different ways. Our first looks at the Earth from above came from kites, rockets, balloons ...