The Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard was officially taken into the Museum’s collection in April. It is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. It was a workhorse of Coast Guard ...

In 1957, before we saw the moon up close, artist Chesley Bonestell imagined a craggy lunar landscape. Within a decade, photos from the surface showed that the mountains of the moon were smooth and ...

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The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...

The creation of a Space National Guard is getting a groundswell of support from Congress as bipartisan groups of lawmakers are submitting bills in both chambers to build it and eliminate an old ...

Note: The museum has embarked on an ambitious, multiyear, multimillion-dollar effort to renovate and reimagine all of its exhibits and put 1,400 new objects on display. It's reopening galleries in ...

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is an aviation enthusiast's heaven. Smithsonian claims that this temple of aviation history holds over 60,000 artifacts related to the history of flight and ...

WASHINGTON--In a more receptive time, the National Air and Space Museum here plans to feature the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three decades after a similar project was ...