... flight model prior to its planned February 2019 launch. Smithsonian approach The Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) first became concerned about these issues when the Google Lunar XPRIZE was announced, in 2007. If ...
...seeking to take by force what others have laboured to produce.” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen David L Goldfein was even more ... to explore and use space; Article II prohibits national appropriation of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial ...
...in the broader history of spaceflight. Subtitled ‘Redefining Humanity’s Purpose in Space’, it is written by the Chair of the history department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, who is better-placed to comment than most. As the author...
... as a single-sandbox teaching tool by performing a complex, high-risk mission - was inducted into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Terran Orbital made history again in May with the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator (PTD-3) satellite...
... the view of our cosmic backyard. So why republish now? The author – astronomy professor at Cornell and director of Washington’s National Air and Space Museum – tackles the question head on in his preface to this new edition. The main reason...
... can now be seen at the Udvar Hazy Center, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s annex at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. Airstream’s next involvement with the American space programme had to wait until 1983, when the company was...