The Space Shuttle program opened up space to more people than ever before--including NASA's first women astronauts. Learn more about these women here.
Jeremy Kinney, from the National Air and Space Museum as well as Seth Paridon and Kate Fitzgerald from the National World War II Museum in New Orleans discuss World War II and Victory in Europe!
On October 11, 1984, a female American astronaut stepped outside her spacecraft for the first time. Kathryn D. "Kathy" Sullivan had work to do in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger,
This digital scavenger hunt challenges you to find aircraft at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center that have animal names.
This paper version of our popular scavenger hunt challenges you to find aircraft at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center that have animal names.
Look in the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia to observe and record some hand-written notes and markings in areas of the spacecraft that have been hidden from view for more than 40 years.
When the Apollo 11 spacecraft lifted off on July 16, 1969, for the Moon, it signaled a climactic instance in human history.
Twenty five blogs that celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo program
The American Space Program was experimenting with fitness in Space when a variable resistance rope friction device which was originally designed to lower people from a burning building.
Compare each Apollo mission traverse on foot and with the Lunar Rovers.
The bag itself was immediately recognizable in that the ALSJ long has had a page devoted to what the astronauts referred to as a McDivitt Purse.
This family activity trains you on how to pick up samples of Moon rocks like the Apollo astronauts.
What do astronauts do when they need a sugar fix? Reach for the candy bag or, as they're labeled aboard the International Space Station (ISS), "candy coated chocolates."
Google Arts & Culture and The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum worked with the team behind Light Fields.
Learn about this remarkable career from flight school to astronaut corp.
In March 1962, Administrator of NASA James Webb suggested that artists be enlisted to document the historic effort to send the first human beings to the Moon.
The Human Spaceflight collection spans decades of achievements from the first U.S. manned Mercury missions through Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station.
Collection of panoramic cockpit images of several Museum artifacts.
Students will build and test composite materials to determine if they increase strength without significantly increasing weight.
In this Explore on Your Own activity, students will design a rover to explore the surface of Mars and determine if there are any signs of past life.