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Before more Museum galleries open, we're revisiting how we hang really, really big, priceless artifacts from the ceiling in the museum.

However, every historic milestone was once highly debated. Many of these debates continue today.

Could humans one day live on other planets? Many efforts are underway to answer that question.

Space Camp opened at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in the summer of 1982, as a weeklong sleepaway camp for middle school students.

In the era of human spaceflight, the community of amateur horologists found a story ripe for their attention: the selection of the Omega Speedmaster Professional as the chronograph (a watch with stopwatch and other functions) certified by NASA for use on spaceflights, both inside and outside the spacecraft.

In this inaugural Book Club episode, AirSpace hosts discuss The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Dr. Moiya McTier. Read along in a non-fiction romp through the Milky Way's life (and future death) told from its perspective. 

A new national Air and Space Museum gallery explores the different ways humans could build a presence in outer space.

In 1920, Astronomers Heber Curtis and Harlow Shapley debated at the Smithsonian whether Andromeda was a separate galaxy.

Pulling back the curtain on artifacts in storage. 

After 44 years of excellence as a tanker, the U.S. Air Force retires the McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender.