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Pulling back the curtain on artifacts in storage. 

Some Smithsonian artifacts that memorialize these achievements might be closer to you than you realize. Through collaborations with affiliate organizations, the Smithsonian sponsors traveling exhibitions and loans artifacts to museums throughout the United States and abroad. 

What's new in aviation and space?

The Burt Rutan-designed SpaceShipOne was able to get to space without NASA's assistance.

On display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is perhaps the only remaining artifact from the Society for Space Travel, an influential interwar rocketry club. Learn about the journey the object took before it joined the National Collection.

Get a behind the scenes listen of Futures in Space, one of the new galleries, with two of its curators. 

Get a behind the scenes listen of Futures in Space, one of the new galleries, with two of its curators. 

If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now, but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings, what would you put on it? Learn about the Voyager Golden Record on the latest AirSpace.

If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now, but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings, what would you put on it? Learn about the Voyager Golden Record on the latest AirSpace.

Beginning in the late 1920s, spaceflight enthusiasts banded together into groups known as "rocket societies" to advance their cause.