Learn about the history and dynamics of hot-air balloons.

Find out how Bernoulli’s principle helps explain lift.

Kepler’s laws show the effects of gravity on orbits. They apply to any object that orbits another: planets orbiting the Sun, moons orbiting a planet, spacecraft orbiting Earth.

Without air, balloons and birds and airplanes couldn’t fly. But since you can’t taste, see, or often even feel air, how can you prove it’s really there?

Learn about what happens to vehicles at hypersonic speeds and what happens to air at high speeds.

Learn how things fly

If you visited another world, you would notice a change in your weight, because the force of gravity acting on you there would be different from the force of gravity here on Earth.

Join Captain Jim Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13 and National Air and Space Museum curator Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony for a discussion about Apollo 13. This live chat was recorded on April 16th, 2020.

Join museum curators to learn about Moon photography from the Apollo missions to today!

This edition of the Air and Space Live Chat with Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, curator and department chair of the Space History department at the National Air and Space Museum.