For anyone who is in their mid-twenties or younger, it is just a fact of life: humans do not just visit space, they live there. But a major part of that is coming to an end. The platform with the long...

Fresh takes on Apollo’s famous “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” images showed off our planet’s beauty just weeks before Earth Day

In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial neighbor. In the decades since, we have been leaving footprints - both literally ...

What happened to NASA?

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet

“Hey, this is a very precarious situation we’re in.”…

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AIAA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) hosted a Summit on Outer Space Heritage on 5 June 2024, at NASM’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center o...

<p>The Smithsonian Institution is the world&rsquo;s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in National Air and Space Museum (NA...