Space & Aviation
Explore Space & Aviation across the Smithsonian through stories, events, and exhibitions. Use the filters to browse by format, then bookmark events and exhibitions to keep track of what you want to visit or attend.
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Using immersive experiences such as wind tunnels, the newly reimagined exhibition explores how people use science and engineering to maximize and minimize the forces acting on aircraft and spacecraft. Topics such as super– and hypersonic flight. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Air and Space Museum
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The RTX Living in the Space Age Hall provides insight into space technologies and infrastructure that are largely invisible to the public but have a profound impact on our daily lives. The exhibition covers topics from the beginning of the . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Air and Space Museum
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Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air examines how the revolution in warfare that took place during the war redefined the promise and peril of military aviation, and explores the dramatic changes to flight and culture that continue to . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Air and Space Museum
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National Science Foundation Discovering Our Universe illuminates how the development of new and more precise tools transformed our understanding of the origin, content, and fate of the universe.
Discover the history of modern astronomy and . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Air and Space Museum
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Gain a richer understanding of Robert Rauschenberg’s innovative techniques, sustained legacy, and unique perspective on all things that fly.
Explore 30 works by Robert Rauschenberg, many that have never been displayed before. Rauschenberg often. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
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The first full moon of the summer delivered dazzling visuals from across the globe. Its low position in the sky from the perspective of the Northern Hemisphere gave it a golden hue.
Unlike external galaxies, which we can photograph from the outside, we must reconstruct the Milky Way's structure from our vantage point within its disk.
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Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that could support living things—but it isn’t a definitive sign of ancient organisms.