Johnson Space Center Aerial View

NASA

Bessie Coleman

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L Explosion

NASA

Charles F. Bolden with Katherine Johnson

NASA

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch

1903 Wright Flyer

1903 Wright Flyer

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

Tuskegee Airmen

Japanese Representative on USS Missouri

U.S. National Archives, Army Signal Corps Collection

Apollo 11 Crew

SR-71 Blackbird

Lockheed SR-71 and Space Shuttle Enterprise at the Udvar-Hazy Center

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Robin Olds completes 100th combat mission over North Vietnam

A view of the sighting control in the rear tail gunner’s position on the B-29 Enola Gay

Bessie Coleman License

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

First cadets, Tuskegee

Boeing B-29

U.S. Air Force

Flag, United States of America, Apollo 11

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Landing at Dulles

Colonel Robin Olds

Checklist, Alternate and Contingency, Apollo 11

Lts Ken Taylor and George Welch

U.S. Air Force

James S. McDonnell Space Hangar

Cernan on the Moon

Flying Tigers Personnel

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

U.S. National Archives, Army Signal Corps Collection

Apollo 1 Crew

NASA

Armstrong's Pre-Flight Spacesuit

The USS Midway (CVB-41) is launched on March 20, 1945, in Newport News, Virginia.

Pressure Suit, A7-L, Armstrong, Apollo 11, Flown

Command Module, Apollo 11

Bessie Coleman Aero Club; William Powell

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Apollo 11 Mission image - Neil A. Armstrong inside the Lunar Module after E

Goggles, Flying, Amelia Earhart

Concorde, Fox Alpha, Air France

Space Shuttle Enterprise at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Discovery Arrives in Virginia

Pressure Suit, A7-L, Armstrong, Apollo 11, Flown

Neil Armstrong's spacesuit

Mark Avino

Armstrong's Apollo 11 Spacesuit

Eric Long

1909 Wright Military Flyer

Space Shuttle Discovery at National Air and Space Museum

Pressure Suit, A7-L, Shepard, Apollo 14, Flown

A riveter works on a wing panel of a Vultee A-31 Vengance dive bomber at Vultee’s Nashville, Tennessee, plant in February 1943.

Missile, Surface-to-Surface, V-2 (A-4)

Shuttle Columbia STS-1 Maiden Launch

NASA

Horten Ho 229 V3

Missile, Cruise, V-1 (Fi 103, FZG 76)

V-2 Missile

Orbiter, Space Shuttle, OV-103, Discovery

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV)

Lunar Roving Vehicle, Qualification Test Unit

Multipurpose Logistics Module, Leonardo, Rests in Discovery's Payload Bay

NASA

V-1 Cruise Missile

Space Shuttle Discovery

Douglas DC-3

Hamilton Standard China Clipper Propeller, Constant-Speed, Three-Blade, Metal

Dr. Mae C. Jemison, First African-American Woman in Space.

NASA

Testing the Lunar Module Signed Photograph

Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart

NASA astronaut Loren J. Shriver eating floating chocolate candies.

Neil Armstrong with X-15

Nancy Grace Roman

NASA

Discovery

Small Stuff Space Shuttle