Following the successful restoration of a German V-2 ballistic missile, the museum’s Preservation and Restoration Unit is now completing work on a V-1 cruise missile. This “buzz bomb,” a ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

A previous post discussed the creation of the V-2 rocket, the first man-made object to reach space. Designed and built at the Peenemünde Army Research Center during World War II, the V-2 was ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring researchers today Elizabeth Landau Since those early steps, extravehicular ...

The aviation museum in Tucson has new planes, some of which you can go in. Here's how long it takes to go through the museum ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

Are you aware that the first rocket that made it to space was actually built for war? The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast, achieved an altitude of almost 190 km – high above ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has donated a New Shepard rocket booster, plus a New Shepard capsule, to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The history-making hardware will ...