Among the items issued to astronauts are Velcro-backed name tags that can be attached to their flight suits and jackets. This ...

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. With ...

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.

Col. Brandt served thirty years in the USAF from December 1959 through December 1989. During his career he flew five combat aircraft over a 25 year period in the Cold War and Southeast Asia. These ...

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.

The XR-7755-3 is the largest, most powerful reciprocating aircraft engine in the world. During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces requested an engine with high takeoff power and low fuel ...

Pratt & whitney developed the 4,500-kilogram (10,000-pound) thrust JT3 turbojet engine in 1950. It powered such military aircraft as the Boeing B-52, Convair F-102, Douglas A3D, Lockheed U-2, ...

This Apollo 15 commemorative medal, the 93rd commemorative medal privately struck by the National Commemorative Society, memorializes the Apollo 15 mission in which NASA astronauts David R. Scott and ...

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.

Designed after World War II, the Twin Wasp E Series engine incorporated the best of what had been learned over the previous two decades. Aircraft manufacturers’ plans included a Douglas DC-3 ...

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.

The A7L pressure suits worn by Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin when they took the first steps on the Moon in July 1969 were a remarkable piece of engineering A suit that allowed an astronaut to ...