Today on AirSpace: the scandal of the century! Matt and Emily are joined by friend of the show and Museum curator Bob van der Linden to learn all the twists and turns of the Air Mail Crisis of 1934.

In George Pal’s 1951 movie “When Worlds Collide”, the rogue star Bellus passes through the solar system, destroying Earth after a spectacular sequence of earthquakes, lava flows, tidal waves, and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is celebrating 50 years since the building in Washington, D.C., opened to the public and will commemorate this milestone throughout 2026. The museum ...

As visitors enter the National Air and Space Museum’s recently reopened Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, an incredible collection of hanging artifacts draws their gaze upward. Throughout the hall, a ...

Why the Predator is here to stay. The Battle of Takur Ghar began three days into Operation Anaconda—an attempt by thousands of U.S. and allied troops to encircle Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in ...

How chaff was invented in World War II. In the summer of 2004, I met one of the great astronomers of the 20th century at his Boston home. I was there to help him clean out his front hall closet. Let ...

With all available military planes and pilots needed on the front lines of World War II, the U.S. needed to get creative to protect merchant vessels and war ships from threats lurking in the water.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos. On a snowy New Year’s afternoon in 1925, on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., astronomer Henry ...

After decades of service, a legendary tanker says farewell. I’m seated in the tail of a U.S. Air Force KC-10 that is climbing to 25,000 feet somewhere over Big Sur. Looking out from the boom ...

Some artifacts at the National Air and Space Museum are part of comprehensive object groups. The Museum’s collection tells the story of Robert Goddard, for instance, through some 80 artifacts that ...

The North American X-15 is a true marvel of aviation history –a pioneering hypersonic research aircraft that pushed the boundaries of aeronautical engineering in the 1960s. This rocket-powered plane ...

The National Air and Space Museum will offer free parking and other discounts at its Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, Nov. 11, in honor of all veterans and active-duty military ...