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Message from Christopher U. Browne, the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the National Air and Space Museum.

Turns out the best way to understand a hurricane is . . . to fly directly through it. We talk to members of the Air Force and NOAA Corps who take to the skies to gather vital weather data. 

The conservation of World War II Triple Ace Bud Anderson’s flight jacket provides insight into a fighter pilot’s life and the meticulous work required to preserve it for display.

Learn about the development of the Piper J-3 "Cub" and its intersecting stories with workers who manufactured the planes and new pilots who used them during WWII. 

Born in 1941 to parents from Chile and Spain, Boris Vallejo grew up in Lima, Peru, and went on become one of the stars of the science fiction and fantasy art world in Hollywood.

While you wait for AirSpace Season 11, check out this episode on the science and history of auroras from our friends at Smithsonian Magazine's podcast, There's More to That.

Planets orbit the Sun, and moons orbit planets and other small planetary bodies, but can two planets orbit each other? The short answer to this question is yes, two planets could orbit each other in what is typically called a double planet or a binary planet system.

A small group of Americans, many of them women, joined pliots from 25 other countries in England's Air Transport Auxilliary, where they ferried hundreds of thousands of planes across the British Isles.

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.