Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were meant to be the third Apollo crew to journey to the Moon on a lunar landing mission. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 astronauts launched from Kennedy ...

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When naval air strategists had crafted the requirements for the new fighter, the need for speed had overridden all other performance goals. With this in mind, the Bureau of Aeronautics selected the ...

The National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) will welcome up to 30 teachers from across the United States each summer. Teachers will remain with the program for two summers, ...

For long distance overseas flight, the flying boat was the obvious solution. As most of the world’s major cities lie along coastlines and have port facilities, expensive conventional airfields were ...

Nancy Love also recognized the coming need for pilots to ferry aircraft and identified highly qualified women pilots in the U.S. who could perform such duties. In September 1942, the Army Air Corps' ...

Physical Description Silver Aero Club de France commemorative medal; Obverse: relief of a robed female figure and angel pointing to a dirigible in the background; Reverse: relief of a Cherub depicted, ...

This test panel of solar cells was used by COMSAT Laboratories to study the performance of the type of cells used on the Intelsat VI communications satellites, five of which were launched over the ...

Stardate 1604.01: At 12:01 am EDT this morning, the National Air and Space Museum began breeding tribbles. This bold, innovative, not-at-all-ill-advised experiment will run for 24 hours, until 11:59 ...

Physical Description Mackay Army Aviation Trophy Medal; Obverse: angle figure in relief with sunrise depicted in background; raised letter text; Reverse: Eagle with shield in talons depicted; raised ...

Médaille Commémorative Française 1914-1918 was awarded to all members of the French Armed Forces who saw service between August 2, 1914 and November 11, 1918. The medal was instituted on June 23, 1920 ...

The Albatros D. Va was a single-seat fighting scout used by the Germans during World War I, 1917-1918. The Albatros D. Va is similar to the Albatros D. V, the only certain means of distinguishing ...