All Stories

People have been spying on each other for forever. This episode is about what changed when spies upped their game (literally), rising into the sky. 

A new National Air and Space Museum Archives collection documents the story of Helen James, a member of the United States Air Force who was arrested and discharged as part of a campaign to remove LGBTQ people from government employment in the 1950s.

On the 35th anniversary of Sally Ride's historic trip to space, a look at other groundbreaking women in aerospace.

While Bessie Coleman never realized her dream of opening a flight school for African American pilots, her legacy as the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license has impacted and inspired flight students for decades.

We remember Alan L.  Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon and the only artist to have visited the Moon.

How the patches on Sally Ride’s flight jacket help tell her groundbreaking story of spaceflight.

The National Air and Space Museum's She Can STEM Summer Camp will offer middle school girls from low-income households a glimpse at the exciting opportunities that aerospace has to offer.

Tom Wolfe, the author of The Right Stuff (1979), one of the most iconic literary books about spaceflight, died this week.

NASA astronauts thank the educators who helped inspire them to achieve their dreams. 

The personal papers of William J. Powell, an early African American aviation pioneer, highlight his career with the American Expeditionary Forces and his work to support African Americans in aviation.