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

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

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

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

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

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

Eight decades after her disappearance, Amelia Earhart's incredible accomplishmenys are still celebra...

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

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...

After 10 years of tests and 12 billion Euros invested, the state-of-the-art Airbus jet completed its...

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

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

Spitfires were the nemesis of the Luftwaffe and the instrument which halted Hitler’s plans for invas...

It is the epic of the heroes of the first century of aviation, since the flight of the first plane o...

A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly, some of the boldest ...