50 Years: New Ideas
As the National Air and Space Museum built its collection and its identity, it also needed to find its footing as a place for science and re...
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50 Years: Origins
The National Air and Space Museum’s building in downtown Washington DC just turned 50 years old, but the Museum’s story began long before th...
50 Years: Opening Day
On July 1, 1976, the National Air and Space Museum opened its doors to the public. It was an unforgettable debut for an iconic building, com...
AirSpace Bonus! Sidedoor: The Wright Sister
We'll be back soon with new episodes of AirSpace! In the mean time, here's a treat from our friends at Sidedoor. Orville and Wilbur Wright h...
AirSpace Revisited: How Do You Sleep?
One of the most commonly asked questions about living and working in space is where and how the astronauts sleep. Watching the astronauts se...
Whirly-Girl #13
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, helicopters were creating quite a buzz. After limited use during World War II, manufacturers ramped up pr...
Snoopy in the Sky
IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A . . . DOGHOUSE? Throughout Charles Schulz's Peanuts stories, Snoopy has used his incomparable imagination...
GO, SPEED RACERS! The 1929 Women's Air Derby
SPEED . . . SKILL . . . SABOTAGE? In August 1929, twenty pilots took off from Santa Monica in a historic and thrilling air race. The all-fem...
A Tale of Two Satellites
In the Cold War, space was a new and critical frontier for intelligence. Many early satellites were spy satellites (although they did a bit...
Scandalous
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 lear...
Kings of the Capsule
July 24th, 1969. After their historic mission to the Moon’s surface and back, there was one final step in the Apollo 11 mission: splashdown....
Gone to the Dogs
Unfortunately, there are still more humans than dogs in the average airport terminal. Still, it’s not uncommon to see dogs as you run to cat...
AirSpace Live! Cooking in Space
Space travel is hungry work. Humans have spent nearly six decades experimenting with different ways to feed astronauts (with mixed reviews)....
Movie Mini: Arrival
Science fiction heroes aren't usually humanities professors, but Arrival (2016) is the exception to that rule. Amy Adams stars as Dr. Louise...
Miasma of Incandescent Plasma
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how we wonder . . . well, where to even begin? How do stars form from gas and dust? Why do some stars go supe...
The Journey of a Suitcase
Have you ever wondered what happens to your checked bag once you've handed it over to the airline? Us too! We took a field trip to Dulles Ai...
Eye of the Hurricane
SEEKING: full time aviators slash weather enthusiasts for unique opportunity. SCHEDULE: hurricane season. WORK SITE: Lakeland, FL; Biloxi, M...
AirSpace Bonus! There's More to That: Auroras
AirSpace will be back with Season 11 very soon. In the meantime we thought y'all would enjoy this episode from the Smithsonian Magazine's po...
Home Front: Anything-to-Anywhere
The Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) are relatively well-known in the U.S. today (to hear more about their story, see our previous epi...
Home Front: Eyes on the Coast
Just off the coast of the United States, a menace lurked in the water. German U-boats were a very real problem for merchant vessels and war...