This browser does not support the video element. The success of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 relied on more than just the three astronauts who journeyed to space Kranz oversaw the planning and ...

Dragonflies and other flying insects flap their paper-thin wings very fast to help them fly. Their bodies are thin and sleek.

Born in Philippines, grew up in Los Angeles. B.A. (magna cum laude), International Relations, University of Southern California. Currently in enrolled in Masters in Intelligence Studies program at ...

Get to know the night sky in this free, live planetarium show. Astronomy Program Observe the Sun DC Metro Area Fridays and Saturdays from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm, weather permitting. Observe the Sun ...

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 ...

Pratt & Whitney initiated design and development of the R-2800 Double Wasp, America’s first 18-cylinder radial engine, in 1936. With water injection and turbo-supercharging, the R-2800 produced more ...

Mr. Felix R. Rigau (aka Rigau Carrera) was born in 1894 at Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy when he was 17 years old. After his military service he requested to enter the ...

This Guided Missile mechanical bank is the first model created by Astro Manufacturing Inc., a company created by two brothers, John and Steven Berzac, who left Duro Manufacturing, another mechanical ...

The major airframe application of the Wright R-3350 engine was the Boeing B-29 during World War II. This engine continued to give useful commercial service after the war, one version of which was the ...

The first supersonic airliner to enter service, the Concorde flew thousands of passengers across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound for over 25 years. Designed and built by Aérospatiale of ...

Upon separation from the Army Air Corps in 1947, Morgan was employed by Saudi Arabian Airlines (TWA) flying for Arabian American Oil Co. (ARAMCO). His first aircraft was a Douglas DC-3, and flights ...

Colonel Donnelly earned his private pilot's license in a Cessna 150 from Sawyer Aviation in Phoenix, AZ on September 14, 1970. He entered the Air Force in June 1975, after graduating from the United ...