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Curtiss aircraft sales representative and flight instructor Lawrence Leon won hearts, minds, and aircraft orders in interwar Argentina through the power of his personality and excellence as a pilot.

Space is dangerous. And as long as we've been sending people into space, we've also been thinking about what we can do to make sure they're prepared for it, and make sure they will come home again.

In February 2019, the National Air and Space Museum launched the Military Women Aviators Oral History Initiative (MWAOHI) to record histories of some of the groundbreaking women who led incremental change in the military that resulted in women becoming fully vested (combat) military pilots.

As a physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, and astronaut, Franklin Chang-Díaz has made significant contributions to space exploration. Born in San José, Costa Rica, he developed a passion for science and space at an early age. He moved to the United States to continue his education and achieve his dream of becoming an astronaut and in 1980, NASA selected Chang-Díaz as an astronaut candidate, making him the first Latin American immigrant to become a NASA astronaut.

When an aerobatic pilot wanted to fly right up to the limit, she chose an aircraft that proved to be a model of instability 

Foam 331's new display at the Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center honors first responders 

John D. “Danny” Olivas grew up in the border city of El Paso, Texas, across the Rio Grande from Mexico. Its population is now 81% Hispanic, the largest Hispanic population of any major city within the United States. Olivas and his extended family have been part of that vibrant community since his great-grandfather migrated from Mexico in 1894.

Foam 331—one of two Oshkosh T-3000 foam-carrying rescue trucks arrived at the Pentagon shorty after American Airlines Flight 77 had impacted the site on September 11, 2001. The efforts of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority firefighters and their foam trucks in conjunction with the other responding jurisdictions succeeded in suppressing the fire, limiting further loss of life and damage. Foam 331 is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center.

Dr. Guy Bluford launched on the STS-8 mission on August 30, 1983, becoming the first Black American in space. Bluford served as a mission specialist and his jobs were to deploy an Indian communications-weather satellite, perform biomedical experiments, and test the orbiter’s 50-foot robotic arm.

In this episode of AeroEspacial, we're jumping into the past and present of Latino representation in the Star Wars universe.

 En este episodio de AeroEspacial, nos adentramos en el pasado y el presente de la representación latina en el universo de La Guerra de las galaxias.