Among the items issued to astronauts are Velcro-backed name tags that can be attached to their flight suits and jackets. This ...

The orbital workshop is the largest component of Skylab, America's first space station. It houses the living quarters, work and storage areas, research equipment, and most of the supplies needed to ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. With ...

This collection consists of 954 JPG files scanned by Richard Dumas from his photographs/ negatives (both color and black and white) that include shots of the base life, personnel, and aircraft of the ...

2005-present: Consultant to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. Chair of the Engineering Review Board for the James Webb Space Telescope. Conduct major design reviews and audits, approve ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. The ...

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft began development of its first production turbofan, the JT3D, in the late 1950s, by taking advantage of the service-proven JT3 (J57) gas generator, and adding a two-stage ...

In the early 1930s, the Navy supported development by Wright of two new liquid-cooled engines, the H-2120 and the V-1800, in a special "high-speed development program." This was undertaken because of ...

This is a Soviet-built, shoulder-launched, surface-to-air missile, the SAM-7. First developed in 1959, first deployed in combat in 1968, the SAM-7 is still in use today. The purpose of the SAM-7 is ...

Lefty Gardner served with distinction in the 8th Air Force in England during WWII. As a bomber pilot flying the B-17 and the B-24 over Germany, Lefty flew the required 34 missions but instead of ...

Louis R. Purnell, Sr. 81, was a World War II fighter pilot who flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. He died of cancer on August 10, 2001 at his home in ...