Space & Aviation
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Learn more about the Hurricane Hunters in the latest episode of our AirSpace podcast: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/airspace-eye-hurricane
Curator Andrew Meade McGee discusses the Cray-1A supercomputer and explores the connection between the history of computing and the history of aerospace.
In the 1970s, scientists Frank Drake and Carl Sagan worked together to create a map that would provide directions to our celestial neighborhood—the Solar System. But how do you make a map of space? Their solution was to use pulsars—spinning . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Join museum educator Ann Caspari to make a viewer to help you focus and observe the stars and planets in our night sky.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed? Join museum educator Ann Caspari to make a shield that can help you feel strong and protected, just like the magnetosphere protects the Earth from the Sun’s energy.
During the 1965 Gemini VI space mission, astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford pulled off one of NASA’s most memorable pranks. After radioing Mission Control about a mysterious unidentified spacecraft flown by someone in a red suit, they . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Season's Greetings from space!
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is sending you a holiday card with four new winter-themed images that contain X-rays from Chandra and data from other telescopes, including our friends at @NASAHubble and @NASAWebb. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
A new symphony based on data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope, transforms astronomical observations into music that traces the life cycle of stars.