Go higher, faster and farther with the Smithsonian as they explore the dreams of flight.

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

A 1969 documentary on the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon made by NASA, telling the story of the histo...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spent more than 30 years scrutinizing the cosmos in an attempt to unr...

National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, p...

Explorer Robert Ballard sets out to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance as he and a ...

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How ...

It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a mill...

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A ...

A real-time reconstruction of time-lapse photographs taken on board the International Space Station ...

On July 16, 1969, hundreds of thousands of spectators and an army of reporters gathered at Cape Kenn...

Built in the United States in the early 1940s by Sikorsky Aircraft, the VS-44 was a large four-engin...

What advantage does space travel bring to mankind? A father and his son search for answers during a ...

A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and pers...

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first...

In VAST, we set off on a journey further into space than any other human being has ever been. Join u...

A story about four British scientists who have created a probe which will take a seven year long tri...