Go higher, faster and farther with the Smithsonian as they explore the dreams of flight.
On 21 December 1988 a Pan Am 747 jet exploded over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie. On the 25th...
Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual foo...
The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...
Explorer Robert Ballard sets out to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance as he and a ...
The 2022 film "Top Gun: Maverick" continues the adventures of the ace fighter pilot made famous by T...
Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on t...
Guy joins an ambitious engineering project to recover a crashed WW2 Lancaster Bomber – and the remai...
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 ...
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...
William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and i...
National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, p...
On an expedition through Latin America, Italian General Italo Balbo made the Atlantic crossing with ...
In one single, epic camera move we journey from Earth's surface to the outermost reaches of the univ...
The Wonder of it All focuses on the human side of the men behind the Apollo missions through candid ...
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exp...
On July 16, 1969, hundreds of thousands of spectators and an army of reporters gathered at Cape Kenn...
Three billion miles away a grand-piano-sized spacecraft is speeding through the outer solar system a...
A unique behind-the-scenes access to NASA’s ambitious mission to launch the James Webb Space Telesco...
At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first...