Archives

The National Air and Space Museum Archives is the foremost facility of its kind, with valuable documentary records of the history, science, and technology of aeronautics and space flight. Most of this documentation is unpublished, primary source material not found anywhere else, and priceless.

The Archives Division transferred almost 17,000 containers, 18,000 reels of microfilm, 13,000 rolls of motion picture film and 7,000 videos to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The new facility provides more than 16,000 square feet of modern, secure, climate-controlled storage space—three times more storage space for the collections and including seven to eight times more space for rare manuscripts and motion picture film.

The Archives Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., is now open to researchers by appointment, Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. The Technical Reference Files Collection remains at the Museum in Washington and can be accessed by appointment, Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm.   

More information about the Archives Collections can be found on the Archives Division web page.

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