CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) recently received a trailerful of plaster-coated care packages that add to its already expansive fossil collection – one of the largest in the country. The dinosaur fossils are the [Read More]
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SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight turns 60 this month, and its Sept. 13-14 birthday weekend offers special tours, exhibits, family activities and lectures, plus the first showing of the Museum’s newly-acquired Learjet 24A, and [Read More]
SEATTLE, – On Oct. 1 the Museum presents a provocative book talk with award-winning Washington Post space reporter Christian Davenport and GeekWire science writer Alan Boyle. The two acclaimed space industry experts will discuss Davenport’s [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum’s annual Jet Blast Bash festival on the flightline is Seattle’s closest seat to experience the Blue Angels’ thunderous takeoffs and landings for the Boeing Seafair Airshow Aug. 2-3. JBB is also [Read More]
SEATTLE —The Museum of Flight’s major new exhibit for 2025 opens June 21 (media preview with Ralph Ziman June 18) with the world premiere of The MiG-21 Project, South African artist Ralph Ziman’s 5-year, multidisciplinary [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum is now accepting entries for its annual Spacesuit Design Contest, an all-ages exercise in fun fashion for fantasy spaceflights. This year’s theme is “Sustainability Suits,” and designers are challenged to build [Read More]
Coleman’s presentation and book signing reflects upon her Astronaut’s Guide to Mission Wonder and Making Change SEATTLE – On Jan. 11, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, space explorer, scientist, Air Force colonel and mom, will share [Read More]
Reception and a presentation with Cassidy, plus the Home Beyond Earth exhibit SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight offers an intimate evening reception and presentation with retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Cassidy [Read More]
SEATTLE – FIFI, one of only two World War II B-29 bombers still flying, will be based at The Museum of Flight Sept. 25-29 for rides and ground tours. The historic Superfortress is scheduled to [Read More]
SEATTLE – Is the new space age the beginning of a far-out Wild West? On Sept. 14 a diverse panel of spaceflight experts and professionals will take on the sticky realities of space law and [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Sept. 28, the Museum’s Home Beyond Earth exhibit expands its orbit and invites visitors to enter a futuristic life-size space station module—the TESSERAE Space Habitat Pavilion. The 20-feet high dome pavilion is [Read More]
SEATTLE – Scientist, author, pilot and NASA astronaut Tom Jones will talk about all things space shuttle during a lecture and book signing on Aug. 17. A veteran of four shuttle missions himself, Jones interviewed [Read More]
SEATTLE – On July 27, award-winning author Ron Miller and new Smithsonian coauthors Matthew Shindell and Margaret Weitekamp will lead a visual journey through the history of the spaceship in our collective imagination and in [Read More]
SEATTLE — The Museum’s annual spaceflight celebration, Sally’s Day, will be June 15, 11:30-4 p.m. with events honoring the enduring legacy of astronaut Sally Ride—the first American woman to fly in space. This year, The [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum’s new Home Beyond Earth exhibition opens June 8 with exciting events aimed at keeping families in orbit all day. Activities include space-themed workshops, planetarium shows, spaceflight presentations, games, making postcards to [Read More]
Only a few more weeks until the June 8 opening of The Museum of Flight’s newest exhibition, Home Beyond Earth. The major new temporary exhibit was conceived and created by the Museum as an immersive [Read More]
SEATTLE – Installation is underway with The Museum of Flight’s newest creation, Home Beyond Earth, an immersive new exhibition that looks at the past, present and future of living in orbit around the Earth. Opening [Read More]
SEATTLE – On March 30 at 3 p.m., NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger shares her experiences of flying in the space shuttle and being an Educator Mission Specialist on the International Space Station. In 2010 the [Read More]