Technology & Innovation
Explore Technology & Innovation 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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Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but neither explorer got to plant the first flag in the heart of Antarctica.
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Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed the strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain.
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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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.
Next time you think about fixing a page rip with a little tape, please. DON’T.
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.
The featured Arizona artifact for “50 for 50” is the camera from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Artemis II astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman share how this camera aided their work on the Artemis II mission.