SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight’s Boeing Academy for STEM Learning annual scholarship program awarded $314,500 in scholarships to 12 Seattle area high school students this past week. The 2019 scholarships include two post-secondary scholarships [Read More]
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TUKWILA, Wash., – Like the deep first rumble of a rocket launch, international momentum is building for this summer’s July celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the Museum’s signature [Read More]
SEATTLE – The angular F-117 Nighthawk is one of the most distinctive fighter planes ever made. Former F-117 pilot Lorin Long provides an in-depth briefing of the famous “Stealth Fighter.” Lorin will tell what it’s [Read More]
TUKWILA, Wash., – The upcoming Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission exhibition took a giant leap closer to its April 13 opening with the installation of Buzz Aldrin’s spacesuit gloves and helmet. The delicate work [Read More]
SEATTLE – eattle aviator Bob Dempster plans to recreate a flight around the world that was the “Moonshot” of 1924. And he is going to do it flying a homemade replica of one of the [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is offering a metal casting workshop in its working shipyard from Wednesday, April 10, through Friday, April 12, with an additional day on Sunday, April 14. [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. has two spring workshops to help boaters get their outboard engines ready for boating season. On Saturday, March 30, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Recommissioning Your [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum’s iconic Boeing 747 prototype first took flight on February 9, 1969, and in celebration of this 50th anniversary there will be a weekend of special activities. On Feb. 9, there will [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Feb. 2, astronaut Greg “Ray J” Johnson will talk about his adventures as a NASA pilot flying everything from the space shuttle on the final Hubble telescope serving mission, to the bulbous [Read More]
SEATTLE – From Jan. 25-Feb. 3 the Museum honors the astronauts lost in service during NASA’s Apollo and space shuttle programs. Special exhibits will look at Apollo 1 (Jan. 27, 1967) and the space shuttles [Read More]
CINCINNATI – On December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 blasted off on what would be the first manned mission to orbit the moon and return safely, setting the stage for the successful Apollo 11 mission’s first [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) is supercharging your favorite science experiments and bringing them to life in explosive fashion. The first phase of CMC’s new Science Interactives Gallery will allow amateur scientists and the [Read More]
SEATTLE – The historic spacecraft that astronauts flew to the first Moon landing will be the centerpiece of the Museum’s signature 2019 exhibit—Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission. The exhibition will be on view April [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) is supercharging your favorite science experiments and bringing them to life in explosive fashion. The first phase of CMC’s new Science Interactives Gallery will allow amateur scientists and the [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Dec. 8 the Museum hosts a rare public appearance with one of the most influential persons in NASA’s history, George Abbey, and author Michael Cassutt, whose new Abbey biography, The Astronaut Maker [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum’s Space Expo 2018 includes evening receptions Nov. 2-3 with NASA photographer Michael Soluri and Mars Society co-founder Dr. Robert Zubrin. These informal ticketed events allow an insider’s look at NASA spaceflight [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Nov. 2-3, the Museum’s Space Expo 2018 combines the arts and rocket science to explore and interpret space exploration. The event includes evening receptions and lectures, and offers a full day of [Read More]
SEATTLE – Celebrating NASA’s 60 anniversary-Oct. 1-the agency’s Chief Historian, Bill Barry, will be at the Museum on Oct. 6 with a presentation that looks back, looks forward, and shares little-known stories about pushing the [Read More]