Flight and the Smithsonian / Tom D. Crouch -- Capable of flight? The Wright-Smithsonian controversy / Tom D. Crouch -- Building a collection / F. Robert Van Der Linden -- Robert Goddard and the ...

Defense contracting giant Northrop Grumman, which helped design and build NASA’s Apollo lunar module, has donated $10 million to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in D.C. The museum’s ...

Tod Gunter is the first to admit that his giclée prints — though they feature exceptionally detailed, aesthetically pleasing and difficult-to-execute drawings — only appeal to certain crowds. The ...

On December 2, 2010, Alex Spencer, curator of British aircraft and military flight materiel at the National Air and Space Museum, and Michael Neufeld, chair of the Space History Division, presented ...

When re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, SpaceShipOne employed a feathering system that raised to 65 degrees the rear half of the wings along with both tail booms. Invented by American engineer Burt Rutan ...

To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce. Preston Lerner Spruce was essential to the construction of more than 4,000 Curtiss JN-4D ...

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Space Shuttle Discovery, the most space-flown orbiter in NASA’s fleet, may soon be embarking on a new mission. Not to space, but from its long-time home at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board.

The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum could lose the iconic Discovery space shuttle to Houston if a pair of Texas senators get their way. President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill ...