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Thomas W. Haas We All Fly celebrates the breadth and depth of general aviation and its deep impact on society.
El 17 de diciembre de 1903, los hermanos Wright inauguraron la era de la aeronáutica con los primeros vuelos exitosos del mundo de una maquina propulsada más pesada que el aire en Kitty Hawk, Carolina ...
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, the first space shuttle orbiter, arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport riding piggyback aboard a Boeing 747 on December 6, 1985 for transfer to the Museum's ...
The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age explores who Wilbur and Orville Wright were, what they achieved and how they did it, and how the world first reacted to their revolutionary ...
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor was awarded to NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1978. The United States Congress authorized the creation of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1969 to ...
"Top Gun: Then and Now" program held November 30, 2021. This program is for members of the National Air and Space Society. Join us for a special program featuring a new Smithsonian Channel documentary ...
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force had achieved supersonic flight. But the aircraft were little more than rockets, and they weren’t practical as airplanes. The problem of building ...