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

What's new in aviation and space?The One Week Wonder was part of the EAA’s aircraft collection—until an agreement was reached this year with the National Air and Space Museum for it to be displayed at ...

In 1920, Astronomers Heber Curtis and Harlow Shapley debated at the Smithsonian whether Andromeda was a separate galaxy.

At the time, space was a new—and exciting—frontier, and the Starburst pattern seemed to be a sign that the future couldn’t come fast enough. Across a cream background, the design features star shapes ...

Chat with astronomer Rodolfo Montez Jr. Ask questions about the beautiful death throes of Sun-like stars and the ultimate fate of the Sun.

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 ...

Here Chauncey Spencer stands with his sister during their stop in New York. In New York, the pilots were celebrated with parties attended by Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and other notables.

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

The Warner Aircraft Corporation of Detroit, Michigan built four models of similar radial air-cooled engines. Three were seven cylinder engines first introduced with the 82 kW (110 hp) Scarab at the ...

This is a 1:48 scale model of the Mercury-Redstone, the launch vehicle for Project Mercury's suborbital missions. The Army's Redstone medium-range ballistic missile was selected in 1958 as the launch ...

The proceedings volume of the 1964 Soviet Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Communication with them was published in Russian in Yerevan in 1965. The title page was issued in Armenian ...

(Left) Academician V. Ambartsumian opens up the conference. (Right) Boris Panovkin tells about the possibility of deciphering signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.