Travel into the world of aviation and explore the dreams of flight with the Smithsonian as they step into the unknown.

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...

Few aircraft have attracted more attention than the ominous black supersonic jet that for years has ...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...

In one single, epic camera move we journey from Earth's surface to the outermost reaches of the univ...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the...

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

Wings Over Water tells the fascinating story of naval aviation's critical role in making the U.S. a ...

A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a clos...

It's June 1942 and the world's fate is about to be decided by a handful of pilots and their untested...

A celebration of those still flying the last remaining Grumman Albatross, a seaplane from a long-los...

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...

It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

The wonders of the universe have long propelled our insatiable desire to learn more about who we are...

The first Women’s Air Derby was flown in 1929 with brave women making history by breaking into a com...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...

In unusual circumstances, scientists from different countries work together to achieve a common scie...