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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This November, visitors to the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles will get to see the “ready-to-launch” “Endeavour” complete with rocket boosters and a fuel tank.
50 years ago in 1976, a recent high school graduate walked through the doors of the brand-new National Air and Space Museum building on the National Mall. Cathleen Lewis couldn’t have known that one day she would return, not as a visitor, but as . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
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The pictures, on the competition’s shortlist, reveal the remarkable celestial objects that lie above our heads, both in deep space and closer to home.
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After a year of testing, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started capturing data as part of the much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
We’re looking at the cosmos through a red, white, and blue lens. Who needs backyard fireworks when you have supernova remnants and supermassive black holes putting on a show?
A new result shows that the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This finding may lead astronomers to adjust their understanding of our home galaxy’s structure.
Next time you have a smooth flight, silently thank an ornithologist.
The featured DC artifact for “50 for 50” is a small DC flag that was flown around the Moon! Washingtonian Bill Nye pays tribute to another DC native who took that flag to the Moon — Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins.