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Because of its light weight, this five cylinder engine was selected by Emile Berliner, an inventor possibly better known in the acoustics field, to drive a helicopter's vertical shaft in a 1908 "test ...

At 8:15 pm on Monday, April 26, 1920, two men took to the stage of the Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Each man had been given 40 minutes ...

The idea to donate the dishes to the National Air and Space Museum came after Matos-Puente visited the St. Louis Science Center in 2018. “While touring the exhibits, I passed by a display of what ...

In October 2019, the National Air and Space Museum received SORATO, a lunar rover built by Japanese aerospace company ispace’s Team HAKUTO, one of the five finalists of the Google Lunar X Prize ...

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After their trip, Spencer and White drew this map of their route, including the unplanned stops.

Here Chauncey Spencer stands with his sister during their stop in New York. In New York, the pilots were celebrated with parties attended by Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and other notables.

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The beautiful, but skewed, spiral galaxy NGC 1961 is about 190 million light-years from Earth—in the constellation Camelopardalis. During Hubble’s era, astronomers debated whether such formations were ...

Excalibur, flanked by two F-15C Eagles, departs Travis Air Force Base in California for the last time.

Amelia Earhart took this pennant, given to her by the Society of Women Geographers ("SWG"), on her solo, nonstop flight from Honolulu to Oakland on January 11-12, 1935. With that flight Earhart became ...