Experience the Apollo 11 Command Module, inside and out, and to-scale using VR, or on a mobile device, while having the curator walk you through the object.
The Smithsonian used a 3D printer to create a 1:1 replica of a Thomas Jefferson bronze statue. It’s the first print in a new effort to copy the world’s largest …
The Smithsonian x3D Explorer is an interactive educational tool that enables the public to interact with scientific specimens and artifacts like never before.
Bringing an Object to Life is the topic for the Smithsonian’s What’s New in Aerospace? Series and presented in collaboration with NASA. In this segment, researchers preparing objects for an …
On September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 was launched on a mission to explore where nothing had flown before. First on its journey were Jupiter and Saturn and it is currently …
NASA’s 2013 astronaut candidate class joined Washington-area students and the public on Jan. 30 for an educational event at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The eight …
Understanding the hazards of space weather on crewed and robotic missions is vital to informing plans for NASA’s Journey to Mars and other missions into our solar system, and beyond. …