Discover how the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is bringing expert talks, hands-on artifacts, and preservation ...

A growing movement is fighting to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, warning that a proposed move to Houston ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum reopens Friday, Oct. 14, with eight new and renovated galleries in the west wing of its building in Washington, D.C. The planetarium and museum store ...

The National Air and Space Museum will temporarily close on March 28, 2022. When it reopens in fall 2022, it will reopen with eight new galleries.

WASHINGTON - Before the pandemic, the National Air and Space Museum was one of the most popular museums in the world. It drew 6.2 million visitors in 2018 - behind only the Metropolitan Museum of ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts.

The National Air and Space Museum, which first opened its doors 46 years ago, was upgraded to include eight new exhibitions, hundreds of new artifacts, and 50 digital interactive exhibits ...

Betty Skelton’s Pitts S-1C Special “Little Stinker” on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. [Courtesy: Smithsonian Institution] ...

Ellen Stofan saw her first rocket launch when she was 4 years old. Now, more than 50 years later, she's director of the National Air and Space Museum — the first woman to hold the position.

The National Air and Space Museum turned to the skies, and to music, to help get through tough times. The virtual concert Space Songs featured musicians like Sting and Daveed Diggs.

On the C-SPAN Networks: National Air and Space Museum has hosted 21 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2005 Speech. The year with the most events was 2016 with four events.