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Aerospace museum in Washington, D.C.
No credible evidence shows any of the seven Challenger crew members survived the January 28, 1986 accident; official investigations, NASA reports and multiple fact-checks conclude all seven died as a ...
We can be certain humans landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972: multiple lines of independent, international evidence — photographic observations by later lunar probes, radar and radio tracking by ...
—Francis “Dick” Scobee, , , , , and —perished in the January 28, 1986 accident and are memorialized in museums, plaques, local monuments and educational programs that carry their names . —, William “W...
The seven members of the crew have been commemorated by a wide array of national, local and institutional memorials — from the granite Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial at to plaques, sculptures, park...
first landed humans on on , when the lunar module touched down in and two astronauts— and —walked on the lunar surface, while remained in lunar orbit aboard the command module . The mission launched e...
Independent observatories — notably Bochum, Parkes, Honeysuckle Creek, Corralitos and Jodrell Bank — and several amateur radio operators (for example Larry Baysinger and others cited in ham-radio repo...
Air & Space began as a Smithsonian-linked publication chronicling aviation and space topics and was produced commercially by Smithsonian Enterprises as Air & Space/Smithsonian before the publication m...