Install the Google Arts & Culture app to explore virtual reality tours from Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Women spearheaded breakthrough scientific missions and helped shape the Space Shuttle era.

Learning about spaceflight couldn’t be more fun with these Shuttle inspired toys.

In space, where the stakes are high, how does one write? After all, the ink in pens isn’t held down by gravity, so how do you write upside down?

Since the first spacewalk, designers have attempted to create gloves that are comfortable, flexible under pressure, provide protection, and offer warmth.

The last time the gloves and helmet were displayed, in 2012, visitors asked us about “grey spots” on the right glove.

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

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

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.

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