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Museum of Flight Space Mavens Offer Insights from Earth to Mars

February 9, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover lands on the Red Planet Feb. 18, and the Museum of Flight is hosting two live, online panel programs to prep and cover the landing with NASA JPL Mars mission engineers. […]

National Museum USAF Selected for Air Force Heritage Award for Space Suit Exhibit

October 20, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force was recently selected by the U.S. Air Force History and Museums Program as a recipient of a 2020 Air Force Heritage Award for its Space Suit exhibit. […]

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A Hawker Siddeley Kestrel Returns Home

April 22, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 5

by Richard Mallory Allnutt Few could dispute the Hawker Siddeley Harrier’s place as one of the most iconic military jets of all time. In terms of fixed-wing attack aircraft, this diminutive ‘jump-jet’ was unique in […]

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Apollo 13 Digital Events

April 15, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 1

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13, the dramatic lunar mission which NASA later regarded as a “successful failure.” Although Apollo 13’s crew did could not completing their original mission to land on […]

An Interview With Apollo 15’s Al Worden

April 13, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

As many of our readers will know, Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden passed away on March 20th. While Apollo 15 marked NASA’s fourth successful journey to the moon, it marked several significant scientific achievements, including […]

The Museum of Flight’s July Programs Celebrating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

July 3, 2019 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – Complementing the Museum’s exhibition done in partnership with the Smithsonian, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, showing now through Sept. 2, the To the Moon! program series presents the stories behind the artifacts, […]

Destination Moon Exhibit Opening April 13th at Museum of Flight

March 21, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

As most readers will be aware, July 16th – 24th, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first landing of human beings on the lunar surface. As such, many aviation museums […]

Museum of Flight’s Plans for Apollo 11 Space Capsule Columbia

December 13, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

As many of our readers will know, the historic crew capsule which topped the Apollo 11 rocket for Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins’ epic July 1969 journey to the moon has been on […]

The Museum of Flight: First Mission to Pluto Detailed in Lecture and Book Signing

May 9, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 1

On May 17, Town Hall Seattle and The Museum of Flight host a lecture and book signing with space experts, Alan Stern and David Grinspoon, who will share insight from their new book “Chasing New […]

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John Young – The Passing of a Legend

January 7, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

On January 5th, we lost John Young, perhaps the finest pilot and astronaut of his era. John Young was in the second class of astronauts, known as the New Nine, which NASA selected in 1962 […]

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