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National Air and Space Museum Expands Its Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

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National Air and Space Museum Announces Five New Galleries Will Open July 28

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When Airplanes Make Emergency Landings on Water

How skill and rigorous training helped pilots endure when ditching was the only option. Only two of the four large propellers were still turning as the Boeing B-17D slowly descended in the ...
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The Birth of Military Aviation

To end the brutality of World War I combat, military strategists looked to the skies for victory. World War I airplanes that can still fly are a rarity. In the United States, in fact, only a handful ...
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Mickey Mouse One

Walt Disney’s private jet gave him the freedom to create entertainment genius. Master animator and filmmaker Walt Disney was one of the most notable artistic and entrepreneurial visionaries of the ...
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Just Doing Their Jobs

There’s a reason you don’t know the names of the first American women to fly combat missions. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower tore through the waters of the Persian Gulf on November 15, 1994. On the ...
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Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds

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

Maj. Richard Heyser had been sitting 14 miles above the Earth for 5 hours. Soaring at the edge of space, he flew from northern California, around the Gulf of Mexico, and approached the small island of ...
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How Commercial Landers Are Changing Lunar Exploration

Commercial landers signal a new era in lunar exploration. At the new Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh, visitors can tour a lunar habitat, design a mission patch, and even build their own model rovers.
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Col Edward T. Magdziak USA

Colonel U.S. Army. Military service from 09 January 1963 through March 2004. Military service included; Active Army (enlisted), Air National Guard (NY), Army National Guard (NY), U.S. Army Reserve ...
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Overshoes from the Last Man on the Moon

These are the last human-worn objects to touch another world. When the crew of Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon landing, returned to Earth after their record-breaking mission in December 1972, ...
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Diagram of NASA Mission Control

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