A selection of well-known and world-renowned air and space artifacts at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Your search found 9 result(s).

Engineering inventor Pierre Clerget and industrialist Eugene Blin established Clerget, Blin and Cie in 1913 in Levallois-Peret, a suburb of Paris, France. The company built both stationary and rotary ...

This is the main electronics box, built by the Ball Aerospace company, from the High Altitude Observatory Coronagraph, an experiment flown on the Space Shuttle as part of the Solar Maximum Mission, ...

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

The standard wardrobe for Space Shuttle crews included comfortable t-shirts and shorts for sleepwear. Crewmembers usually slept in individual fabric sleeping bags that could be attached to the cabin ...

Each astronaut aboard a spacecraft has a personal hygiene kit with items for cleanliness and grooming during the mission. Contents typically include a comb, hairbrush, toothbrush, toothpaste, dental ...

Senator Jake Garn (R., Utah) wore this flight suit on the STS 51-D Space Shuttle mission aboard Discovery in April 1985. At the time, he was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and ...

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey is the 1974 autobography of Michael Collins (1930--2021). While his early aviation career in the United States Air Force is covered, the vast majority of the ...

Member of the Fourth Class to enter the U.S. Air Force Academy in June, 1958. The Class of 1962 was named the RTBs due to their antics during a field trip to USAF Operational Command bases during the ...

In 1976, a hang glider enthusiast named Steve Grossruck began exploring ways to increase the soaring performance of the Manta Products Fledgling (see Pterodactyl Fledgling in NASM collection).

Among the items issued to astronauts are velcro-backed leather name tags that can be attached to flight suits and jackets. This name tag is a spare for astronaut Dr. Sally K. Ride. She flew as a ...