Although her flight is not considered “official,” this day in history we remember Blanche Stuart Scott, the first American woman to take a solo hop into the air.

A dedicated team of professionals developed the equipment and managed the project, which resulted in a new generation of pressure suits and parachute systems, the establishment of protocols for ...

Physical Description Two cufflinks and three shirt studs for mess dress shirt. Silver plated.

Curtiss XF9C-1 Sparrowhawk, photographed on April 27, 1931. (Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. 80-G-466289.) ...

Five Lunar Orbiter missions photographed both the near and far sides of the Moon in 1966 and 1967 to prepare for the Apollo landings.

From the first "talkies" to the most recent major releases, Hollywood has explored the history and experience of World War I in a variety of films.

Did you know that Calbraith Perry Rodgers, the first pilot to fly across America was partially deaf? Americans with disabilities like Rodgers have made history flying almost since the airplane was ...

Cuando escucha “carrera espacial”, probablemente piense —correctamente— en la pugna entre la Unión Soviética y Estados Unidos durante los años 60 por enviar a un astronauta a la Luna. Sin embargo, ...

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

From groundbreaking technologies to creative preservation methods, innovation is at the heart of the National Air and Space Museum’s exhibitions. Join us for an after-hours event at the Museum to: ...

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 ...

During and after World War I, American women pushed hard for the right to vote. Pilot Ruth Law did not publicly fight for voting rights. However, she became a symbol for this issue, as seen in this ...