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F-15C Eagle at the Udvar-Hazy Center

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National Air and Space Museum Opens Five New Galleries July 28

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Mapping the Moon with the Lunar Orbiter

If you are traveling somewhere new, you are more than likely going to need some form of map to get there. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave the United States a mandate: Before the decade was out ...
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Charles Duke's Family Photograph on the Moon

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Trailblazers in Conversation: Astronauts Fisher, Seddon, and Sullivan (Glenn Lecture)

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This Space Age Tableware is Now a Museum Collectible

A passion for space exploration influenced how one family set the dinner table. As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was ...
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Milestones of Flight: The Epic of Aviation with the National Air and Space Museum

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A Robot Could Be an Astronaut's Best Friend

When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Astronauts and cosmonauts stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) from 2011 to 2018 shared ...
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Distance Between the Sun, Moon, and Earth

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Nathan Gordon, the Consolidated PBY Catalina, and a Medal of Honor Flight

When many people think of World War II naval aviation in the Pacific, aircraft such as the Grumman F4F Wildcat or the Vought F4U Corsair often come to mind. Large, slow flying boats like the ...
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Celebrating America’s Hangar

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center had a birthday party—and everyone was invited. Twenty years ago this past December, the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, ...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth

Joseph Kittinger traveled to the edge of space—and jumped. On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger went for a balloon ride. Sitting inside an open gondola suspended from an enormous helium-filled envelope, ...