The Mercury spacesuit was a close-fitting, two-layer, full pressure suit developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company from their Mark IV pressure suit, as used by the U.S. Navy. It was selected by NASA in ...

Otto Lilienthal compiled and published a table of coefficients of lift and drag for the airfoil shape he used on his gliders. The table became quite well known and was the starting point for ...

Pratt & Whitney won a 1970 U.S. Air Force competition to design the engine for the service's next generation fighter, the F-15 Eagle. The F100-PW-100 first flew in July 1972 and entered service with ...

Continuing to Make History The first pilots to fly across country were all white men. Women and pilots of color faced more barriers. They often found it difficult to find flying schools that would ...

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Four astronauts served as the capsule communicator, or CapCom. Each took his turn being the constant point of contact between the astronauts and Mission Control (clockwise from top left): Charles Duke ...

The invention of the balloon struck the men and women of the late 18th century like a thunderbolt. Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, ...

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Explore the stories of innovative individuals who contributed to early flight at the National Air and Space Museum.

From 1943 to 1944, over 1,000 women flew over 60 million miles ferrying aircraft and personnel, towing targets, and other transport duties as part of the WASP. The WASP flew every military aircraft ...