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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Enceladus is covered in ice, but that layer might hide a subsurface ocean. Researchers have long wondered if the salty body of water has the right conditions to host life, and now, a team suggests that an Earthly, heat-loving organism could . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a chaotic place. In addition to the 4-million-solar mass black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the region is full of gas, dust, strong magnetic fields, and stars in various stages of life . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Explore how World War II brought large-scale aircraft manufacturing to North Texas, transforming the region into a major aviation center and laying the foundation for its lasting aerospace industry.
In 1928, two intrepid explorers, Hubert Wilkins and his pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, flew a single-engine Lockheed Vega on a 2,200-mile journey across the Arctic.
The AV-8B, a famously unforgiving jet, earned the devotion of the pilots who mastered it.
How digital technology increasingly aids aircraft carrier approaches.
The story of the space-based IMAX camera
Chris Browne recounts the centennial commemorative flight he took over the North Pole that retraced Richard Byrd’s historic 1926 journey.