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National Air and Space Museum Opens Five New Galleries July 28

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Mapping the Moon with the Lunar Orbiter

If you are traveling somewhere new, you are more than likely going to need some form of map to get there. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave the United States a mandate: Before the decade was out ...
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Charles Duke's Family Photograph on the Moon

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Trailblazers in Conversation: Astronauts Fisher, Seddon, and Sullivan (Glenn Lecture)

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Sleepaway Camp, But Make It Space

Growing up in the 90s, I watched a lot of Nickelodeon television shows. I especially enjoyed the game shows where “kidtestants” competed in slime-covered obstacle courses to win a grand prize—an ...
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This Space Age Tableware is Now a Museum Collectible

A passion for space exploration influenced how one family set the dinner table. As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was ...
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Milestones of Flight: The Epic of Aviation with the National Air and Space Museum

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An Innovative Spacecraft Makes Contact with an Asteroid

A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission. Dante Lauretta grew up hiking and camping in the Arizona desert, a hobby that revealed spectacular views of ...
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Distance Between the Sun, Moon, and Earth

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Jerrie Mock Flight Verification

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.
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Nathan Gordon, the Consolidated PBY Catalina, and a Medal of Honor Flight

When many people think of World War II naval aviation in the Pacific, aircraft such as the Grumman F4F Wildcat or the Vought F4U Corsair often come to mind. Large, slow flying boats like the ...
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Just Doing Their Jobs

There’s a reason you don’t know the names of the first American women to fly combat missions. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower tore through the waters of the Persian Gulf on November 15, 1994. On the ...