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Delicious, nutritious, LIVE!  In our first-ever live podcast taping from the Museum, we spoke to a chef, a curator of Space History, and the inventor of a next-gen space oven about the future of cooking and eating in space. 

For the first time, a spacecraft will explore the Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos. 

How the war in Afghanistan transformed both the MQ-1 Predator and the Night Stalkers from supporting roles to leading actors in 21st-century warfare. 

During World War II, astronomer Fred Whipple was central to the invention of radar-jamming chaff at Harvard University’s Radio Research Laboratory.

In the 1980s, the Cola Wars between Coca-Cola and Pepsi got so intense, they even launched their rivalry into outer space.

For over a decade now, volunteers at the San Diego Air & Space Museum have been building a reproduction of Howard Hughes’ H-1 Racer, also known as the Hughes 1B. 

The majority of what has been accomplished in space has been carried out by uncrewed robotic craft. 

Five Lunar Orbiter missions photographed both the near and far sides of the Moon in 1966 and 1967 to prepare for the Apollo landings.

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.