July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... in 1966, when the first ever spacecraft docking in space with another vehicle was accomplished with an Agena target –... Apollo 40th anniversary celebration held at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC on 20 July 2009. Practical legacy The ...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... 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 commissioned...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... Roger Launius, Associate Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. "It doesn't mean they don't do science or that those scientific discoveries are not important...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... the country; talks were given by cosmonauts and certificates were awarded afterwards. The students were taken to space museums and, in Moscow, the old Cosmos pavilion at the Exhibition of Economic and Scientific Achievements, the VDNK (which...
