Apollo 8, which launched on December 21, 1968, was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. While the crew did not land on the Moon's surface, the flight was an important prelude to a ...

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.

Artist Alma Thomas created paintings inspired by space, including a painting called “Blast Off!” inspired by the Apollo mission to the Moon. How are you inspired by blasts and bursts in air and space?

A company called Rocketdyne made the H-1 engine for NASA. It was really powerful because it burned a special fuel called RP-1, which is like kerosene, along with liquid oxygen. This engine created 188 ...

Present day Mars is cold and dry with water mostly locked up as ice in the polar caps or in the subsurface. Abundant evidence, in the form of dry valleys, channels, deltas, and lake beds, exists for ...

Are you curious about the night sky? Come to the planetarium at the Museum in DC for a live, guided tour of what you can see after sunset. The facilitator will answer questions and customize the ...

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. The ...

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.

Colonel Isbell is a holder of two Distinguished Flying Cross awards received for heroism while commanding an Army Assault Helicopter Company in Vietnam in 1972. Isbell served three tours of duty in ...

Fred Hungate was one of the early "Flying Farmers of America". Shortly after WW I, he wrote to the Curtiss Airplane Co. asking them to send him a "Jenny" airplane. It arrived in a huge crate at his ...

Henry “Hank” Kobulnicky began his career in aviation at the flight school of Ohio State University. He went on to become Purdue University’s chief flight instructor and built his own Midget Mustang to ...