Stories of daring, stories of technological feats, stories of prevailing against the odds ... these are the stories we tell at the National Air and Space Museum. Dive in to the stories below to discover, learn, and be inspired.
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December 10, 2025
For the first time, a spacecraft will explore the Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos.
October 09, 2025
While you wait for AirSpace Season 11, check out this episode on the science and history of auroras from our friends at Smithsonian Magazine's podcast, There's More to That.
August 29, 2025
Over 5,800 exoplanets have been discovered, with more and more being observed almost every day. But what makes these objects planets and not stars? How different are planets and stars, actually?
July 31, 2025
The majority of what has been accomplished in space has been carried out by uncrewed robotic craft.
July 01, 2025
Could humans one day live on other planets? Many efforts are underway to answer that question.
June 26, 2025
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.
May 08, 2025
If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now, but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings, what would you put on it? Learn about the Voyager Golden Record on the latest AirSpace.
May 08, 2025
If you were curating a mixtape that might be heard by aliens billions of years from now, but definitely would be seen by your fellow Earthlings, what would you put on it? Learn about the Voyager Golden Record on the latest AirSpace.
March 20, 2025
An interview with Dante Lauretta, NASA's principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission. In his new book, The Asteroid Hunter, Lauretta recounts the sample-return mission that brought rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu to back to Earth.
December 18, 2024
Weather phenomena across the solar system are stranger than scientists could have imagined.