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IMAX—Not the First, but Close!

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This Unusual Map Locates Our Solar System in Space and Time

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Turbopump, Steam Generator and Frame, V-2 Rocket Engine

The turbopump and steam generator assembly of the V-2 engine drew the propellants--liquid oxygen and 75% alcohol--from the missile's tanks and injected them under pressure into the combustion chamber.
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Model, Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle (HLLV), 1:144

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Body Art During World War II: From the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection

For the museum’s blog series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, I have focused on the Museum’s art collection and the embedded meanings in the paintings of Robert Jordan ...
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The "Rope Mother" Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton at work in Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Staff during the Apollo missions. A few years after graduating from Earlham College with a BA in Mathematics, Margaret Hamilton soon found ...
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The Armstrong Purse: Flown Apollo 11 Lunar Artifacts

At the National Air and Space Museum, as elsewhere around the world, we were enormously saddened when we learned that Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, had died of ...
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Plans for the Little Known Confederate Helicopter

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. Side View drawing showing the longitudinal and vertical Archimedean screws and central location of smoke stacks for William C. Powers' ...
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What is a Biplane?

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An Extraordinary Journey: The History of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds

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Young Fault Scarps on the Moon

The most well known tectonic landforms on the Moon are found in and around the nearside mare basins. Wrinkle ridges, formed by contraction, and rilles or troughs, formed by extension, deform the mare ...
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Moon Missions Past and Present

Learn about moon landings past and future! Celebrate the anniversary of the final Apollo moon mission, discover what we learned during this mission, and get an introduction to Artemis, NASA's current ...