The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum joins the aviation and spaceflight communities in mourning the loss of Wally Funk, who was a remarkable pilot, flight instructor, Air Safety ...
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People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. While the destination is the same, the goals are more ambitious. The program’s ...
The dangers of powering military aircraft with nuclear energy. Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S. Air Force ...
When you get dressed for the day, you have to think about what the weather is going to be like that day and what you'll be doing - Is it cold outside? Is it sunny or cloudy? Are you going to play ...
Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. Maj. Richard Heyser had been sitting 14 miles above the Earth for 5 hours. Soaring at the edge of space, he flew from northern ...
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be ...
Before the race to the Moon ended in 1969, both the Americans and Soviets were planning their separate futures in space. After the competitive short-term goals of human spaceflight had been met in the ...
Our night sky is full of wonders. When you look up you can see the stars, the Moon, and sometimes even other planets! We know what these otherworldly objects are because of centuries of research ...
*This is the second blog in a two part blog series of the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. Read part one.* High-priority projects, such as the XB-35 all-wing bomber, distracted Northrop’s engineering team ...
Today NASA announced the four astronauts that will fly on board Artemis II, the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis Moon landing program. Artemis II is the first crewed flight test of the Space ...