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 ...

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

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 ...

Richard D. Zahn enlisted in the Navy at 17 years old (1946), serving on active duty in the waning days of WWII, with the Atlantic Fleet. He then enlisted in Officer Training and was commissioned as an ...

In 1924, the US Army Air Service sent four specially-built aircraft, the Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and New Orleans on an around the world flight. This collection consists ...

Richard Holm grew up in Iowa and, wanting to fly, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps for pilot training during WWII at age seventeen. He was placed in the reserves, but because he wanted to fly, he ...

A bronze bust by African American artist Eddie Dixon (born in 1950) commemorates Eugene Jacques Bullard (1895-1961), the first and only African American combat pilot in World War I. The stoic facial ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Married Philip currier, her flight instructor and had two children, both boys. She passed away in the mid 1970s, after a long illness. This donation is given in memory of my aunt, who was a wonderful ...

Joe Finch was born August 6 , 1945 - the day we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He spent formative years in Arizona, Morocco, Greece and Spain before returning to Tucson to attend college.