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A picture of four women in flight gear walking confidently away from a plane. Overtop the image is a purple wash and the AirSpace logo.

July 22, 2025

AirSpace Revisited: Fly Girl

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The Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were a huge part of civilian aviation during WWII. Ahead of our new limited series, Home Front, we've brought back our season four episode where we highlighted the heroic service and enduring legacy of WASP. 

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Woman poses on one knee on the wing of an aircraft.

July 18, 2025

Pancho Barnes, the Stuntwoman in the Way of the U.S. Air Force

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Pancho Barnes was an air racer, stunt pilot, entrepreneur, and even party instigator—a woman who knew no bounds.

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A woman in a pink sweater with amputated legs smiles while sitting on the wing of an airplane.

July 16, 2025

Three History-Making Aviators with Disabilities You'll Want to Know

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Americans with disabilities have made history flying almost since the airplane was invented.

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Four square solar panels constructed of aluminum frames and composite solar collectors, attached to a central body via aluminum struts. The Central bus consists of a variety of solid boxes and stalks with panels and other objects projecting from it. A tubular mast at the apex of the frame supports a rectangular a circular high gain antenna. A selection of instrument boxes, vernier rockets and their fuel containers, and the TV camera are attached to the frame.

July 15, 2025

Mapping the Moon with the Lunar Orbiter

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

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July 09, 2025

AirSpace Revisited: Dancing on the Ceiling

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Before more Museum galleries open, we're revisiting how we hang really, really big, priceless artifacts from the ceiling in the museum.

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Profile view of SpaceShipOne against black background.

July 02, 2025

Who Gets to Send People (and Spacecraft) to Space?

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However, every historic milestone was once highly debated. Many of these debates continue today.

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A travel poster that reads "Relax on Kepler-16b, the land of two suns, where your shadow always has company." The image shows a humanoid figure on a rocky surface under two bright orbs.

July 01, 2025

Could We Live on Other Planets in the Future?

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Could humans one day live on other planets? Many efforts are underway to answer that question.

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Various people, mostly young, doing different activities inside a large hangar. A space shuttle can be seen in the background and spacesuits are set up in the foreground.

June 30, 2025

Sleepaway Camp, But Make It Space

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Space Camp opened at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, in the summer of 1982, as a weeklong sleepaway camp.

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A watch photographed against a dark surface.

June 26, 2025

Space Time Technology

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In the era of human spaceflight, the community of amateur horologists found a story ripe for their attention: the selection of the Omega Speedmaster Professional as the chronograph (a watch with stopwatch and other functions) certified by NASA for use on spaceflights, both inside and outside the spacecraft.

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June 26, 2025

AirSpace Book Club

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In this inaugural Book Club episode, AirSpace hosts discuss The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Dr. Moiya McTier. Read along in a non-fiction romp through the Milky Way's life (and future death) told from its perspective. 

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