The beautiful, but skewed, spiral galaxy NGC 1961 is about 190 million light-years from Earth—in the constellation Camelopardalis. During Hubble’s era, astronomers debated whether such formations were ...

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After their trip, Spencer and White drew this map of their route, including the unplanned stops.

Home Explore Collection Objects Fabric, Aircraft, "1903 Wright Flyer" Download Image Download Image Download Image 3 Images ...

The idea to donate the dishes to the National Air and Space Museum came after Matos-Puente visited the St. Louis Science Center in 2018. “While touring the exhibits, I passed by a display of what ...

At 8:15 pm on Monday, April 26, 1920, two men took to the stage of the Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Each man had been given 40 minutes ...

Composite showing Col. Stapp during rocket sled test at Holloman AFB, NM. Test to study effects of bailout at high altitude and supersonic speeds. Photos 1-3 taken during acceleration phase: force = ...

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Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award of the American Astronautical Society, 2008; winner of the Richard W. Leopold Prize of the Organization of American Historians, 2008; winner ...

The 1909 Wright Military Flyer is the world's first military airplane. In 1908, the U.S. Army Signal Corps advertised for bids for a two-seat observation aircraft. The general requirements were as ...

Following splashdown,while en route to Hawaii on the USS Hornet, Michael Collins crawled back into the command module (it was connected to the mobile quarantine facility by an air-tight tunnel) and ...