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Join us as author Melissa Trempe reads her book Ladybug Launch: Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space.
To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the Army formed the Spruce Production Division (SPD) to meet the demand.
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 ...
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Bring the Museum to you through these unique virtual programs for learners of all ages.
Charles M. Schulz and Walt Disney, the creators of some of the most endearing cartoon characters ever drawn, both found inspiration in the worlds of aviation and space.
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.
One hundred years after the first U.S. Navy airship took to the skies, zeppelins and blimps are poised to make a comeback ...
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 ...
The Artemis II mission will return humans to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. And those Moon-faring humans are commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission ...