Marc Sklar is the director of Communications leading a team providing communications and marketing support to the Museum in Washington, DC, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland. Prior to joining the Museum, he worked in corporate communications for The Boeing Company supporting rotorcraft, advanced systems, governance, and supply chain organizations. Before joining Boeing, Sklar was a broadcast news producer with CNN based in Washington, DC including time covering the Clinton administration, and worked as an online business news reporter. He holds a BS in international economics from Georgetown University and an MBA/Aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Findings from a recently published paper led by Smithsonian senior scientist emeritus Thomas R. Watters reveal evidence that the deposits of the vast Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) may contain a significant volume of water ice.
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has accepted into its collection an aerial prototype of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The prototype has been donated to the museum by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.