Join Museum staff and members of the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club for a view of the night sky through our telescopes. Stargazing will take place outside in the bus parking lot at the Steven F.

Otto Lilienthal compiled and published a table of coefficients of lift and drag for the airfoil shape he used on his gliders. The table became quite well known and was the starting point for ...

An L shaped tubular metal with a wood covered metal hand grip at one end.

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 ...

A pin for Sally Ride Science, a kids focused organization Sally Ride founded.

The DH-4 in the NASM collection was the prototype American-built DH-4, manufactured by the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company. This airplane was used in more than 2,600 experiments until its retirement in ...

Physical Description Cast brass plaque with Early Birds emblem and inscription citing Harvey Crawford.

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

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.

Excalibur, flanked by two F-15C Eagles, departs Travis Air Force Base in California for the last time.