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These artifacts made headlines in their day and helped transform our world and make our planet smaller and our universe even larger.

The bag itself was immediately recognizable in that the ALSJ long has had a page devoted to what the astronauts referred to as a McDivitt Purse.

How the Lockheed SR–71 Blackbird’s design helped pilots go higher and further than ever before.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with remarkable insights into our universe, but its start was anything but smooth.

So how do you put on a spacesuit? Very carefully! Even in the case of custom–made suits from the Apollo era.

When astronaut John Glenn made history as the first American in orbit, his custom spacesuit helped him make the journey.

Take a walk around the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Space Hangar to get an inside–look at the most accomplished Space Shuttle.

The scientists who opened the skies to humanity without ever leaving the ground.

These three components of Armstrong’s A7–L spacesuit are a small portion of what hundreds of millions of people saw on the television broadcast of his first steps on the lunar surface.

Space Shuttle Discovery makes one final trip to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum April 2012

Google Arts & Culture and The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum worked with the team behind Light Fields.

Learn about this remarkable career from flight school to astronaut corp.