Enjoy views of the Moon, along with other night sky objects, at the Udvar-Hazy Center, weather permitting. Astronomy Program Observe the Sun DC Metro Area Fridays and Saturdays from 12:00 pm to 3:00 ...

This habitat box was used twice for student experiments aboard the Space Shuttle. It housed 3300 honeybees on the STS 41-C mission in 1984 and numerous houseflies on the STS 51-D mission in 1985. Many ...

Many people consider the P-51 Mustang the best fighter of World War II. Its combination of speed, range, maneuverability, and firepower gave it great versatility. Its use in all major theaters of the ...

Dragonflies and other flying insects flap their paper-thin wings very fast to help them fly. Their bodies are thin and sleek. The wings of a plane or space shuttle are flat like the wings of a ...

Japan's J7W1 Shinden was the only World War II aircraft of canard configuration that any combatant ordered into production. Canard is a French term. The original meaning is obscure but aircraft ...

Born in 1928 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Died in 2000 in Batesville, AR. Buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His military career spanned more than 27 years and included over 8 years of enlisted ...

This is a retail box from the early 1970s of a small movie camera made by Estes Industries for use in its Cineroc flying rocket models. Color film and batteries to operate the camera are included. The ...

Pratt & Whitney initiated design and development of the R-2800 Double Wasp, America’s first 18-cylinder radial engine, in 1936. With water injection and turbo-supercharging, the R-2800 produced more ...

This cookie jar shaped like John Glenn's Friendship 7 Mercury capsule was produced by McCoy Pottery between 1962 and 1968. McCoy cookie jars in various novelty shapes were available for sale in "five ...

This low power neutral particle beam (NPB) accelerator developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory was one of several directed energy weapons investigated by the Strategic Defense Initiative ...