The National Air and Space Museum Library would like to share some new books for the month of January 2011
Tag: National Air and Space Museum
Albert Francis Zahm, The Smithsonian Report for 1914, 1915, Langley Aeroplane (Built 1898-1903) Ready for Launching at Hammondsport, N.Y., May 28, 1914. This image, from The first man-carrying aeroplane capable of sustained more »
On this day in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope started sending images from space. The first image was of a cluster 1,350 light years from Earth, NGC 3532, in the more »
Charles A. Lindbergh, We: The Famous Flier's Own Story of His Life and His Transatlantic Flight, 1927, And out of the night came a silver bird bearing a boy who more »
On September 30th, 2009 the new Public Observatory of Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) opened. Secretary of the Smithsonian, G. Wayne Clough recently cited the observatory project as more »