Yes! Many other planets and planetary bodies (I mean moons) experience these geological phenomena. In some cases, we have been able to directly measure earthquakes and see volcanoes erupting. We have ...

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.

If you are traveling somewhere new, you are more than likely going to need some form of map to get there. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave the United States a mandate: Before the decade was out ...

We’ve seen it over and over in popular media: some version of an advanced society that travels from planet to planet in spaceships much like we travel the skies in aircraft. They might live on other ...

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. I ...

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.

How Lockheed's P-3 kept the Cold War from turning hot. Submarines are hard to kill. For military strategists, no warship generates as much uncertainty and trepidation as an adversary that can prowl ...

This 100-year-old Navy veteran flew PBYs in World War II. U.S. Navy veteran Cash Barber volunteers at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. There is a certain sound of pride in the ...

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, ...

Espionage, or the practice of spying, has been used by militaries to gather intelligence for centuries. During World War I, a new form of espionage took flight—literally. Photography from aircraft was ...

Joseph Kittinger traveled to the edge of space—and jumped. On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger went for a balloon ride. Sitting inside an open gondola suspended from an enormous helium-filled envelope, ...

The Saturn V rocket, the launch vehicle for the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s and 1970s, remains the largest and heaviest rocket ever successfully launched. It stood 363 feet tall (taller than ...