As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was sparked ...

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two ...

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I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...

Artists are nominated by a Smithsonian research staff member and then selected by a panel of Smithsonian art curators and representatives from the science, history and culture communities. More than ...

The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

Discover how the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is bringing expert talks, hands-on artifacts, and preservation ...

The prestigious national Hodson Award is presented yearly to one government law office for extraordinary service and ...

The Senate appropriations committee challenges Trump’s 2026 budget, aiming to protect NASA Science and NSF from major cuts.

Jeffrey Rudolph ’78 developed a master plan to build the California Science Center into a center of science, learning, and ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

The bill signed by President Trump on July 4 includes money to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum to Texas.