The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

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

The prestigious national Hodson Award is presented yearly to one government law office for extraordinary service and ...

The Senate appropriations committee challenges Trump’s 2026 budget, aiming to protect NASA Science and NSF from major cuts.

Jeffrey Rudolph ’78 developed a master plan to build the California Science Center into a center of science, learning, and ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

The bill signed by President Trump on July 4 includes money to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum to Texas.

Aside from its public-friendly museum, the Center also houses the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, ...

With flight simulators and hundreds of aircraft on display, the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, is what aviation ...

The shrimp feast in space has gone viral, but shrimp cocktail has actually been a go-to protein for astronauts for at least the past 60 years. Edward White, an astronaut on the 1965 Gemini 4 mission, ...

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...