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AirSpace Bonus Briefing
As you may have heard, astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain were scheduled to perform a spacewalk today. AirSpace hosts Emily, Matt, and Nick break down why this changed.
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Season 2, Ep. 4: AirSpace Live at SXSW
In this special episode recorded at SXSW, Emily, Matt, and Nick recount stories of failure and how they’ve inspired a whole lot of success in science and space exploration
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Season 2, Ep. 5: Big Iron
Scientists believe our planet has a metallic inner core, but we can’t exactly crack it open and check. Instead, NASA is sending a mission to an asteroid named Psyche, which appears to be a nickel-iron...
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Season 2, Ep. 7: Rock on the Moon
What music would you take along on a quarter-million mile road trip?
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Season 2, Ep. 8: Walking on the Moon
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, AirSpace examines what we knew then, what we know now, and what mysteries of lunar science still remain.
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Season 2, Ep. 9: Walking on the Moon Part 2
In part two of Walking on the Moon, we’re talking about the important science still happening with Apollo Moon rocks here on Earth a half-century later.
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Season 2, Ep. 13: Out of the Frying Pan
Emily, Matt, and Nick unpack story behind their new favorite space movie (yes, it’s even better than Armageddon!).
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Calculating Trajectories and Breaking Boundaries During Apollo
In the late 1960s, Poppy Northcutt was a return-to-Earth specialist with TRW, working on a contract with NASA on one of the most exciting adventures of the 20th century: humanity’s quest for the Moon....
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Looking Both Ways
Not long after the successful Apollo 11 mission, its three crew members were invited to speak to Congress. In this guest blog, Command Module Pilot, and former director of the National Air and Space...
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Season 2, Ep. 14: Survivor
In the final episode of season 2, Emily, Nick, and Matt discuss the implications of tardigrades on the Moon, and why scientists are working hard to ensure that microbes from Earth aren’t contaminating...
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How Star Wars Revolutionized Entertainment
The three ways that the Star Wars franchised changed the entertainment business.
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Top 5 Stories of 2019
2019 was a big year at the National Air and Space Museum, as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, commemorated the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, and worked hard on our ongoing...
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Remembering Julius Montgomery: Space Program Pioneer
Julius Montgomery, a pioneering African American in the space program, died on January 22, 2020, in Florida. He was the first African American ever hired at the Cape Canaveral space facility to work...
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Conserving Michael Collins' Apollo 11 Razor
Conservation of Michael Collins' razor from the Apollo 11 mission presented conservators with a complex ethical dilemma for deciding the best treatment approach: how to arrest degradation while...
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Katherine Johnson - Continues to Inspire
On February 24, 2020, Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101, after a long life of learning and teaching—and quietly helping the United States reach our destiny in space.
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The Science of Leap Year
In 2020, February gets an extra day. Instead of 28 days, this year February will have 29 days. Almost everyone if familiar with the concept of leap year, but the reasoning behind it is a little...
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Our Friend Al Who Went to the Moon
Alfred "Al" Worden, command module pilot on Apollo 15, passed away on March 18, 2020. We mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Al, an aviator, engineer, and storyteller. From the halls of West...
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Transcribing the Sally K. Ride Papers
We are pleased to announce that the Sally K. Ride Papers, consisting of over 23 cubic feet (38,640 pages!) of archival material chronicling Ride’s career from the 1970s through the 2010s, have been...
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3D Scanning Space Shuttle Discovery
The Smithsonian's Digitization Program Office takes you behind the scenes of how they captured a comprehensive 3D dataset of the largest museum artifact ever to be digitized: Space Shuttle Discovery
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Telling Hubble's Story for 30 Years
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, curator David DeVorkin takes you on a virtual tour of our Hubble artifacts.
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