As the world’s largest museum group, the Smithsonian comprises 21 museums and the National Zoo. Each year, its museums unveil ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is celebrating 50 years since the building in Washington, D.C., opened to the public and will commemorate this milestone throughout 2026. The museum ...

Robert Rauschenberg’s aviation-inspired works will headline new Smithsonian exhibition. The show will debut as part of the National Air and Space Museum’s newly renovated Flight and Arts Center. The ...

Five new galleries debut July 1, marking the museum's 50th anniversary and completion of an eight-year renovation.

The jewel of the new "Futures in Space" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is a Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule. Visitors who come to the museum to be ...

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Being in orbit is great. Not so much if you want a carbonated beverage. Andrew J. Ross These two cola cans—which were customized for use aboard the space shuttle—are in the permanent collection of the ...

We are excited to share the first 3D digital scans of objects from the National Air and Space Museum, in a multi-year collaboration with the Smithsonian's Digitization Program office, and our ...

Hundreds of space artifacts are set to return to or debut on display with the opening of five reimagined galleries at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. this summer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But it won’t be there for much longer, perhaps. Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...