Stories of daring, stories of technological feats, stories of prevailing against the odds ... these are the stories we tell at the National Air and Space Museum. Dive in to the stories below to discover, learn, and be inspired. 

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April 30, 2015 The Last Hours of MESSENGER Story | From the Archives

Today, the MESSENGER spacecraft will succumb to the influence of gravity and impact on the surface of Mercury

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March 14, 2015 Reflections on Pi Day, March 14 Story | At the Museum

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, has a special place in the annals of space exploration, having among its graduates 23 (and counting) astronauts, including Gus Grissom, Neil Armstrong, and a host of shuttle crew members, who have flown on more than 40 shuttle missions.

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February 17, 2015 WWI U.S. Army Protective Helmet Used by American Rocket Society Story | Under the Radar

What does a piece of World War I Army surplus have to do with early rocketry?

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January 30, 2015 Remembering Milton W. Rosen Story | At the Museum

Milton Rosen was a pioneer of American rocketry development.

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October 17, 2014 New Satellite Image of Out of Many, One Story

Out Of Many, One by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada is a large-scale portrait, made of sand and soil, temporarily displayed on the National Mall for the month of October.

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September 08, 2014 “Vengeance Weapon 2”: 70th Anniversary of the V-2 Campaign Story

The world’s first ballistic missile campaign began when the first German V-2 missile successfully launched in combat hit a suburb outside Paris. A second launch later that day hit Chiswick near London. Senior curator Michael Neufeld discusses the V-2 and this campaign.

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July 24, 2014 Apollo@45: Technological Virtuosity Remembered Story

There is no question that the success of Project Apollo in the 1960s helped to create a culture of competence for NASA that translated into a level of confidence in American capability, and especially in the ability of government to perform effectively, to resolve any problem. Something that almost sounds unthinkable in the early twenty-first century but such was indeed the case in the 1960s.

 
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July 02, 2014 Remembering Frederick Ira Ordway, III Story

Fred Ordway passed away in Huntsville, Alabama, on the morning of Tuesday July 1.

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June 13, 2014 “Buzz Bomb”: 70th Anniversary of the V-1 Campaign Story

In 1944: Germany launched the world’s first operational cruise missile at England one week after D-Day. The British nicknamed the V-1“buzz bomb” or “doodlebug.”

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May 13, 2014 Virtual Vacation Story | From the Archives

As people start making their summer vacation plans, I often daydream about traveling around the world.  Then I realize that I don’t even need to leave the office to see far off places. The National Air and Space Museum Archives' photography collection allows me to travel anywhere (and almost any time in the past 100 or so years)! My virtual vacation begins with the pyramids in Giza, Egypt, in 1926.

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