Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom (EDI/EGPH) Originally a military airport, Edinburgh Airport opened to commercial aviation in 1977. It is now Scotland's second largest airport after Glasgow ...

Matt: So Pancho Barnes is an interesting character, right? She was born right, uh, at the turn of the 20th century in 1901. She wasn't actually born and given the name. Pancho, which you might imagine ...

Story times and puppet shows that explore World War II history Meeting re-enactors telling the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots and the Women's Army Corps Swing dance lessons with a live ...

Samuel Langley was a leading scientific figure in the United States in the 19th century and is well known as the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Part of his career included aerodynamic ...

The ultimate objective of the risky flights was to lay the foundation for the Air Force to build a nuclear-powered bomber. At the time of Fulton’s flight, though, the air-cooled nuclear reactor didn’t ...

To counter the threat, the Navy saw the need for a rugged aircraft with long legs and maneuverability. The search for the right airplane started in 1957, when the Navy issued specifications for a new ...

A short history of early 20th-century drones.The invention that had inspired such glowing reviews was a four-foot-long model of a torpedo boat unveiled by Nikola Tesla—considered by some to be the ...

The new gallery is the third iteration of a World War I exhibition since the National Air and Space Museum opened its building on the National Mall in 1976. The previous iteration opened in 1991.

Setting the Stage The 1960s and ‘70s was an era that saw significant advancements in aviation and space: Jet airliner service started transforming travel in the 1960s and the Moon landing occurred in ...

Snoopy joined NASA in 1968, as a mascot for the Manned Flight Awareness program (now called the Space Flight Awareness program), which was established in 1963. “Within a couple of years of the first ...

Heyser’s flight that day, October 14, 1962, revealed that the Soviet Union had begun building launch sites for nuclear missiles about 100 miles off the coast of Florida and was protecting those sites ...

This glimpse into the future is made possible by Astrobotic Technology, which houses the museum in the front of its sprawling 47,000-square-foot headquarters. Astrobotic is one of several private ...