Jeff Williams spent 534 days in space. Hear him talk about his missions, his favorite places to photograph from orbit, and what it is like to be away from family for so long.
Join us for a lively conversation with curators and Museum staff on the ups and downs of this exhibition.
Join Museum curator and geologist John Grant for an overview of NASA's ongoing rover missions to Mars and the exploration taking place on the Red Planet today.
Find out about the careers involved in conserving and displaying the nation's important air and space related objects, including the Mercury Freedom 7 capsule.
NASA Astronaut Col. Fred Gregory and Dr. Michael Nickens from George Mason University discuss the integral role music plays here on Earth and beyond.
NASA Astronaut Victor Glover speaks at the National Air and Space Museum for African American Pioneers Family Day in 2017.
NASA's Nicholas Borer talks about the X-57 "Maxwell," an all-electric experimental aircraft.
QueSST will test technology to fly faster, quieter, and more efficiently, and data gathered from the X-59 will pave the way for commercial supersonic flight over land.
Teacher Trevor MacDuff, students Audrey and Jack, and KMBC9 Meteorologist Neville Miller discuss their balloon launch and what students can learn from a launch.
The National History Day them this year is Breaking Barriers in History. The National Air and Space Museum curators answer some of your questions.
Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission, shows the exciting images and science results yielded from the New Horizons mission as the spacecraft flew through the Pluto system
Former astronaut and recent administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan shared the importance of satellite technologies in looking at Earth.
Join Museum curator Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony and Nancy Conrad, wife of Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad and founder of the Conrad Foundation for a conversation about Apollo 12.
NASA Astronaut Drew Feustel shares his passion for maintaining vehicles and how it prepared him for working on the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.
National Air and Space Museum presents a program focused on how we seek to preserve the meaning of a person's life and legacy, particularly that of Sally Ride.
TJ Creamer and NanoRacks project manager Brock Howe, and Sarah Quasny from NASA program integration to talk about how science is conducted on the station.
Ian Clark, from JPL, provides historical context for the development of technologies and talks about the need for improvements as Mars missions move to larger and larger payloads.
The Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 introduced The Lunar Laser Ranging Interplanetary Experiment led by Hildreth (Hal) Walker Jr. This ongoing experiment measures Earth's distance from the Moon
Understanding the hazards of space weather on crewed and robotic missions is vital to informing plans for NASA's Journey to Mars and other missions into our solar system, and beyond.
Badri Younes, discusses the evolution of NASA's communication capabilities, including the exciting future of laser communication.