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Sharing inspiring stories, moments of awe, and one-of-a-kind artifacts from aviation and space history. Start exploring: airandspace.si.edu ✈️ 🚀 🪐
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    Apr 20, 2023
    Congratulations to @SpaceX on today’s launch of Starship, the tallest & most powerful rocket ever launched! 🚀 Although Starship experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” before stage separation, the test provided good data to the Starship team to prepare for the next one.
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    Apr 20, 2023
    Liftoff of Starship!
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    Jun 14, 2025
    A B-29 Superfortress moving under its own power isn't something you see every day, just ask our friends at Dulles Air Traffic Control. Doc, one of only two airworthy B-29s, flew in this afternoon for tomorrow's Innovations in Flight event at our Udvar-Hazy Center.
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    Jul 18, 2019
    Here's something you don't see every day: All three #Apollo11 spacesuits, photographed side-by-side for the first time since the mission, in celebration of #Apollo50 (Order: Aldrin, Collins, Armstrong) Apollo50.si.edu #AirSpacePhoto
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    May 7, 2021
    No more crop you say? Well then, we’ll just go ahead and let this shot of Earth and the Moon in the same frame hang here for a bit. Voyager 1 took the image, captured from 7.25 million miles away, in 1977.
    Earth and the Moon in a single frame, captured by Voyager 1 spacecraft
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    Feb 14, 2022
    "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan On this day in 1990, Voyager 1 took the iconic Pale Blue Dot image.
    Pale Blue Dot image that shows Earth as a very small dot in a vertical color band
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    Aug 8, 2025
    We are saddened by the passing of Gemini and Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. With the crew of Apollo 8, Lovell became one of the first to leave Earth and journey to another world and on Apollo 13 his cool head helped turn a near-disaster into NASA’s finest hour. Lovell was a great
    Jim Lovell in a white Apollo spacesuit standing in front of a rocket on the launch pad.
    An older Jim Lovell sitting in a chair at the National Air and Space Museum. He is smiling and looking off camera.
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    Jul 17, 2020
    One year ago tonight, on the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, we unveiled our own Moonshot: a projection of the Saturn V rocket on the Washington Monument as part of #GoForTheMoon.
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    Aug 2, 2021
    This photo was taken 50 years ago today. We're obsessed with it. #Apollo15 #Apollo50
    Black and white photo of lunar module on the Moon
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    Feb 14, 2021
    "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan On this day in 1990, Voyager 1 took the iconic Pale Blue Dot image.
    Photo of space, with colorful stripes, and a tiny dot of Earth in one of those stripes.
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    Jul 31, 2022
    We are sad to learn of the passing of Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on #StarTrek. She was an inspiration to many, not just for her groundbreaking work on Star Trek but also through her work with NASA to recruit women and people of color to apply to become astronauts.
    Nichelle Nichols playing Lt. Uhura on Star Trek
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    Apr 10, 2022
    On this day in 2019, scientists released the first image of black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.
    Bright ring of yellow-orange light against the darkness of space.
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    Jul 20, 2025
    Happy Moon Landing Day! On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon. This photo shows both astronauts on the Moon, with Armstrong reflected in the visor of Aldrin's helmet.
    Astronaut in Apollo spacesuit standing on the Moon. Another astronaut and part of the lunar module are reflected in the gold visor of his helmet.
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    Jun 27, 2020
    When George Takei debuted as astroscientist-turned-helmsman Lieutenant Sulu on #StarTrek, he made history as the first Asian American to play a major, nonstereotyped character on an American television show. #Pride 📷: @smithsoniannpg
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    May 3, 2021
    Name a more iconic duo, we'll wait.
    Perseverance and Ingenuity rover on Mars.