Replica of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit now on display as part of Curate My Community CINCINNATI – One of Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC)’s most popular objects is taking a small step out of Union Terminal and [Read More]
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July 23 lecture looks at the first year of Pluto close-ups SEATTLE – NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador and Museum of Flight Educator Tony Gondola presents a retrospective look at NASA’s New Horizons mission to [Read More]
Now seeking applications for prospective inventors, innovators and filmmakers CINCINNATI – Calling all inventors, tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts! Cincinnati Museum Center’s Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire is back and, with a new location and new Makers, [Read More]
Speakers preview hot topics for the spaceflight industry’s big conference in Seattle SEATTLE – NewSpace is a three-day conference focusing on the current, near term, and future challenges of commercial spaceflight. Traditionally an annual California [Read More]
SEATTLE – Admission is free to all dads (accompanied by children) on Father’s Day, June 19. The Museum is offering many new experiences since last year’s Father’s Day, including this summer’s big, interactive exhibit, Above [Read More]
SEATTLE – Above and Beyond – The Ultimate Interactive Flight Exhibition, a groundbreaking exhibit exploring the wonder of flight and the marvels of aerospace innovation, design and technology, opens for the summer at The Museum [Read More]
Rocketry workshops during Museum’s Free First Thursday Space Day events, lectures on Thursday and Saturday SEATTLE – Saturday, May 7 at 2 p.m., model rocketry pioneers Lee and Betty Piester with Bill Stine, will present [Read More]
SEATTLE – After leaving Boeing Field as a new airplane 83 years ago, the world’s oldest flyable Boeing twin-engine airliner-the 247D-returned there today for good. The classic plane has belonged to The Museum of Flight [Read More]
SEATTLE – The world’s oldest flyable Boeing airliner will make its last flight on April 26. The classic twin-engine Boeing 247D from the 1930s–one of a mere four remaining in the world, and the only [Read More]
SEATTLE – Aditya Sood, the Hollywood producer who brought Andy Weir’s book, “The Martian,” to the screen, will talk about that process in a special public conversation at the Museum on April 16 at 2 [Read More]
NASHVILLE, TN – Opening May 27, 2016, at Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Bellissima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945-1975 marks an unprecedented gathering of rare and stunning Italian-designed automobiles and motorcycles in a [Read More]
SEATTLE – On March 3rd the Museum of Flight’s recently-restored Boeing 727 prototype made its first flight in 25 years; the flight also marked the airplane’s last flight ever. The Future of Flight at Paine [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight’s recently-restored Boeing 727 prototype will make its first flight in 25 years on March 1-weather permitting-at about 10:30 a.m.; the flight will also be the airplane’s last flight ever. [Read More]
Shuttle astronaut the second African-American woman in space SEATTLE – Three-time space traveler, NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson, will speak at the Museum on Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. The Harvard graduate became the second African-American [Read More]
52-year-old jet will join Museum’s 737 and 747 prototypes SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight is now within a few weeks of finishing a 25-year effort restoring the historic, first Boeing 727 and flying it [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Dec. 5 at 2 p.m., Flying Heritage Collection Military Aviation Curator, Cory Graff, will discuss his new book, “P-51 Mustang: Seventy-five Years of America’s Most Famous Warbird.” Graff examines the whole story [Read More]
SEATTLE, Nov. 19, 2015–At a press conference today–on the anniversary of the Apollo 12 Moon landing on Nov. 19, 1969–The Museum of Flight made the first public showing of the restored remains of the F-1 [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight invites media on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 9:30 a.m. PST to the official delivery of the restored remains of the F-1 rocket engines used to launch NASA’s historic Apollo [Read More]