Enjoy the Museum From Wherever You Are!

Anytime, anywhere you can enjoy a variety of online programs, stories, videos, activities, virtual tours, and resources from us here at Air and Space.  We've compiled some of our best digital resources below and we're continually adding new content, so please check back. Join us on social media to stay connected with our latest stories and digital experiences, and let us know what you'd like to see online from Air and Space.

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K-12 Programs
STEM in 30 Hosts
STEM in 30
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Astronaut returning home
What's New in Aerospace
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Astronaut Alvin Drew discusses his education and career
My Path
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The Moon
E.Z. Science
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STS-130 EVA - International Space Station Cupola
Smithsonian Science Starters
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Electronic Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips
Make Reservations
A storyteller reads to a group.
Online Programs for Early Learners
Make Reservations

Listen to AirSpace

America’s favorite museum has a podcast.

Each episode, hosts Emily, Matt, and Nick bring their expertise, opinion, and humor to unpack stories that go beyond the Museum’s exhibitions. Whether it’s a review of the latest space movie, analysis of a current NASA mission, or a little-known history behind an artifact, you don’t need to love aviation and space to be entertained (but you might after listening).

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Under Ancient Skies

An album unlike any other, Under Ancient Skies is a collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and Grammy Award-winning musician and producer Diplo, with words by the museum, music from Diplo’s album MMXX, and narration by Hrishikesh Hirway.

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Virtual Tours

Tour the National Mall Building

Google Arts and Culture

Take a virtual tour of National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, with Google Street View. Walk through our exhibitions past and present (many are now closed during our renovation). Captured in 2017, this snapshot in time lets you visit the Museum as it appeared before our transformation began. If you want even more, try this virtual tour and jump inside some of our aircraft!

Tour the Udvar-Hazy Center

Google Arts and Culture

Take a virtual tour of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center with Google Street View. Walk through the Museum as it appeared in 2017.

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Activities and Games
Geography from Space
Geography From Space Quiz
Start Quiz
Pilot Pals
Pilot Pals (K-1)
Play Game
Screenshot of Wright Brother Activity
Engineering the Wright Way
Go to Activity
The International Space Station floats above Earth
Spot the ISS From Your Back Yard
Watch Video
Look Inside - Cockpit Panoramas
Front engine and silver single-blade propeller on red Amelia Earhart Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft
Lockheed Vega 5B
Look Inside
Gemini capsule with the words United States on the outside.
Gemini VII
Look Inside
Interior view of cockpit and instrument panels from Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Look Inside
Inside Skylab Orbital Workshop
Skylab Orbital Workshop
Look Inside

Artifact Stories

A Look at the SR-71
SR-71 pilot and National Air and Space Museum docent Buz Carpenter gives STEM in 30 host Marty a tour of his favorite plane, the SR-71 Blackbird. NOTE: There is no inside of the Plane. The fuselage is all fuel tanks. This is a tour of the outside of the Aircraft.
Inventing the Airplane, Changing the World
Orville and Wilbur Wright got involved in aviation in the late 1890s. They realized that the airplane was not one invention but many inventions that all needed to work in concert for the machine to be successful. Each year they experimented, the brothers developed answers to questions like propulsion, control, structures, and aerodynamics. On December 17, 1903, on the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the world’s first airplane lifted off and changed the world forever. Do you know how long that first flight lasted?

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Explore Objects in 3d
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery
Explore in 3D
Bell X-1
Bell X-1
Explore in 3D
Picture of Apollo 11 Command Module on display.
Apollo 11 Command Module
Explore in 3D
1903 Wright Flyer in 3D
1903 Wright Flyer
Explore in 3D

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Pioneer Stories
Bessie Coleman
Pioneering Women
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The First American Astronauts - Mercury 7
An Evening With Two Mercury Astronauts
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Apollo 8 Crew
An Evening with the Apollo 8 Astronauts
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First cadets, Tuskegee
Inspired by Tuskegee Airmen
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Open Access Images - Download, Share, Create!

Amelia Earhart Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft
Object
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B
Wood, fabric, and metal canard biplane 1903 Wright Flyer in museum
Object
1903 Wright Flyer
Cutoff of Douglas DC-7 aircraft in museum
Object
Douglas DC-7
Capsule, Mercury, MA-6
Object
Mercury Friendship 7
A biplane that hangs upside down, with a red body and red and white striped wings.
Google Expeditions
Discover objects and stories at our Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Start by downloading the Go... Expedition app and then check out the Expeditions available to explore.