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

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Wildfire season is getting longer, according to the US Forest Service, making firefighting a bigger, more vital operation each year. In this episode, Emily, Matt, and Nick take a look at how the pros ...

Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were meant to be the third Apollo crew to journey to the Moon on a lunar landing mission. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 astronauts launched from Kennedy ...

This glimpse into the future is made possible by Astrobotic Technology, which houses the museum in the front of its sprawling 47,000-square-foot headquarters. Astrobotic is one of several private ...

The National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) will welcome up to 30 teachers from across the United States each summer. Teachers will remain with the program for two summers, ...

In the mid 1940s, a young Lyle Tuttle (1931–2019) was lured into the then-underground culture of tattoo art after seeing the intriguing tattoo designs on U.S. servicemen returning home from World War ...

In this 2011 Ask an Expert talk, Dr. Roger Launius explores the 1947 Roswell Incident, an event that entangled the United States Army in UFO conspiracy theories that persist to this day. To understand ...

In January 1963 Buzz Aldrin earned a degree of Doctor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), for his 311-page thesis “Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital ...

The X-wing was then uncrated in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar, where it sat partially-assembled among other iconic craft in the history of aviation and space, including the Martin B-26 ...

Fifty years ago, the Apollo 14 mission renewed confidence in NASA and the United States’ ability to land humans on the Moon with a successful touchdown in the lunar highlands on February 5, 1971. The ...

Unfortunately, with the airships’ huge size came massive maintenance and refueling expenses, not to mention ground crews the size of small armies to handle landings and moorings. Safety became a ...