Five Lunar Orbiter missions photographed both the near and far sides of the Moon in 1966 and 1967 to prepare for the Apollo landings.

Rhea Seddon, Kathy Sullivan, and Anna Fisher share their stories as some of the first American women astronauts.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

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. Join ...

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.

To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the Army formed the Spruce Production Division (SPD) to meet the demand.

James Arnold Shelton was born on September 20, 1916 on the Shelton homestead in Judith Basin County near Denton, Montana. He was the fourth child and second son of John Henry Shelton and Anice Lucinda ...

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.

The Smithsonian Institution received a $200 million donation from Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chair of Amazon, and founder of aerospace and space flight company Blue Origin. A portion of 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.