The moonquakes resulted from formation and subsequent activity along a relatively young thrust fault crossing the Taurus-Littrow Valley floor, the site of the last Apollo mission in 1972. The fault ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum received a $10 million donation from Northrop Grumman to support the transformation of the museum’s building in Washington, D.C. In honor of the gift, ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. There ...

The front medallion shows various decorative techniques used to convey Earhart’s story: Engraved lines depict the latitudinal and longitudinal lines while the white fill material highlights her dotted ...

Step outside of the Air and Space Museum and into the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection in San Francisco, California to explore the symbolism of tattoo body art during World War II.

Gene Kranz is best known for his stellar performance as flight director for the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. But Kranz is also known for another thing: his white vests. Kranz’s vests had legendary ...

The distribution and character of lobate scarps on the Moon indicate that the most likely reason for their formation is global contraction of the Moon caused by interior cooling.

Mars massive dust storms that periodically engulf and continue to puzzle planetary scientists—and pose threats to future expeditions. NASA’s beloved solar-powered rover, Opportunity, was killed in the ...

When Apollo 13’s crew famously radioed, “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” Glynn Lunney was one of the flight directors who led the teams finding the solutions that ultimately brought the severely ...

After Pearl Harbor, a Nebraska farm boy named Ben Kuroki volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps. He could not have been more American: born in the breadbasket of America, one of ten children, growing ...

The invention of the airplane is one of the great stories in American history. At the center of this story are two talented, yet modest, Midwestern bicycle shop owners who created a world-changing ...

In this 2011 Ask an Expert talk, Dr. Roger Launius explores the 1947 Roswell Incident, an event that entangled the United States Army in UFO conspiracy theories that persist to this day.