Physical Description Plastic display model of a Douglas DC-8-62 airliner in Braniff livery of white base color on bottom of fuselage, wings, both sides of horizontal stablizer and all of the engine ...

Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom (EDI/EGPH) Originally a military airport, Edinburgh Airport opened to commercial aviation in 1977. It is now Scotland's second largest airport after Glasgow ...

The historic Boeing B-29 Enola Gay is shown here just after being restored and re-assembled in 2003. The airplane, which received the most extensive restoration in the museum's history, is on display ...

Welcome to the Virtual Tour of the Destination Moon exhibition opened in 2022 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The exhibition explores the human spaceflight program in the ...

The Jupiter-C was a modified Army Redstone liquid-fuel rocket with solid-fuel upper stages and a slightly more powerful main stage engine. The Explorer 1 instruments recorded cosmic rays, ...

Anonymous (15) James Albaugh Claudia R. Allen and Willis M. Allen, Jr. Bob and Dori Arrington Mr. and Mrs. William R. Baecht Kimberly Caitlin Barden Jonathan R. Barrett and Ann J. Lowe LeRoy T.

GE followed with two designs of increased thrust; first the I-14 (aimed at 6,227 N (1,400 lb.) thrust) and then with the I-16. The J31-GE-3 (I-16-3) was an Air Force engine used in the Bell YP-59. It ...

LM 2 was built for a second unmanned Earth-orbit test flight. Because the test flight of LM 1, performed as part of the Apollo 5 mission, was so successful, a second unmanned LM test mission was ...

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This Canadarm decal was owned by Dr. Sally K. Ride. A large artificial arm used to lift payloads into orbit and retrieve them, it was named Canadarm because it was Canadian-built, but it was also ...

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) in 1928 was the first woman to fly (as a passenger) across the Atlantic, and in 1932 the first woman (and second person, after Charles Lindbergh) to fly solo and nonstop ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC ...