Explore how World War II brought large-scale aircraft manufacturing to North Texas, transforming the region into a major ...

The AV-8B, a famously unforgiving jet, earned the devotion of the pilots who mastered it. It’s May at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in eastern North Carolina—a clear, sun-washed morning ...

Before the race to the Moon ended in 1969, both the Americans and Soviets were planning their separate futures in space. After the competitive short-term goals of human spaceflight had been met in the ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. The original 1903 Wright Flyer at the National Air and Space Museum The flying machine with which Wilbur and Orville Wright made those ...

In 1956, based on the commercialized CJ805-3 version of the military J79 turbojet then powering the Convair 880, GE began development of an aft fan engine, the J79-X220, later designated CJ-805-23.

While wings proved to be a successful way to lift an aircraft, what would power and propel it into the sky? And once up there, how could a pilot control its movement in three-dimensional space? Early ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

This article, originally titled "Where No Museum Has Gone Before: The ASQ-Star Trek Trivia Quiz," is from the Fall 2026 issue of Air & Space Quarterly, the National Air and Space Museum's signature ...