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Remembering the Death of Lt. Joe Kennedy Jr. and America’s First Combat Drones

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. A drone B-17, seen a year after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, when it was being evaluated for use in sampling atomic clouds ...
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Socks, Slipper, Space Shuttle

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McDonnell FH-1 Phantom I

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V-2 Rocket Engine Combustion Chamber cutaway

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Communications Satellite, Mechanical Test Model, MicroSat

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Sopwith F.1 Camel

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Douglas A4D-2N/A-4C Skyhawk

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Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1a

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Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, ...
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The Wright Brothers Made History at Kitty Hawk

At 10:35 a.m., on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made history in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They made the first powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air flying machine. It was ...
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National Air and Space Museum Expands Its Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

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Alan Shepard: First American in Space

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