Rhea Seddon, Kathy Sullivan, and Anna Fisher share their stories as some of the first American women astronauts.

The proceedings volume of the 1964 Soviet Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Communication with them was published in Russian in Yerevan in 1965. The title page was issued in Armenian ...

(Left) Academician V. Ambartsumian opens up the conference. (Right) Boris Panovkin tells about the possibility of deciphering signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

Home For Researchers Publications Introduction To Flight, Seventh Edition Publisher McGraw-Hill Higher Education 2011, 7.5 x 9.5 944 pages Hardcover isbn: 978-0073380247 Softcover isbn: 978-0071263184 ...

Excalibur, flanked by two F-15C Eagles, departs Travis Air Force Base in California for the last time.

The beautiful, but skewed, spiral galaxy NGC 1961 is about 190 million light-years from Earth—in the constellation Camelopardalis. During Hubble’s era, astronomers debated whether such formations were ...

Dr. Philip S. Hart is a noted educator, author and filmmaker. His books include: Flying Free: Americas First Black Aviator, Levrer Books, 1992; Up in the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman, Corolrhoda ...

Here Chauncey Spencer stands with his sister during their stop in New York. In New York, the pilots were celebrated with parties attended by Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and other notables.

After their trip, Spencer and White drew this map of their route, including the unplanned stops.

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 ...

What's new in aviation and space?The One Week Wonder was part of the EAA’s aircraft collection—until an agreement was reached this year with the National Air and Space Museum for it to be displayed at ...

At the time, space was a new—and exciting—frontier, and the Starburst pattern seemed to be a sign that the future couldn’t come fast enough. Across a cream background, the design features star shapes ...