The Smithsonian Institution, particularly through its National Air and Space Museum (NASM), plays a vital role in preserving and showcasing the history and future of aerospace technology. NASM maintains a vast collection of air and spacecraft, offering exhibits and educational resources to the public. It also partners with NASA, having the right of first refusal for historic space agency artifacts. The Smithsonian also provides STEM education through the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, which is a Smithsonian Affiliate.
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Kevin Napier is a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Matthew Holman is a senior astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and a former director of the Minor Planet Center.
SFL Missions will integrate the HelioSwarm instrument suite developed by the University of New Hampshire with the Centre National d’Études Spatiales, the U.K. Space Agency, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Scott Solomon is a Teaching Professor of BioSciences at Rice University and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
SFL Missions will integrate the HelioSwarm instrument suite developed by the University of New Hampshire with partners at the Centre National d’Études Spatiales, the United Kingdom Space Agency, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
The Chandra X-ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's scientific operations from Cambridge, Massachusetts and its flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts.
Robert Goddard received a grant of $5,000 over five years from the Smithsonian Institution in January 1917 to fund his research.
Jonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics prefers a smaller number of larger satellites to reduce the risk of space collisions.
Senators Cornyn and Cruz introduced the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act to relocate Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston.
NASA selected the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to display Discovery over Houston in April 2011.
Academics and the Smithsonian consider the transfer of Discovery to Houston without proper oversight to be a potential theft of a $2-billion artifact.
The senators accuse the Smithsonian Institution of lobbying congressional committee staff and collaborating with journalists to inflate relocation cost estimates in order to keep Discovery as part of its collection.
The Smithsonian Institution stated in an early October letter to Congress that relocating Discovery would require partial disassembly and could cost between $120 million and $150 million.
John Cornyn and Ted Cruz allege that the Smithsonian Institution improperly used federal funds to oppose President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBBA).
U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz claim that the Smithsonian Institution has violated anti-lobbying laws regarding the relocation of the Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas.
Carter Emmart produced models of the Mars Cycler spaceship, with one model donated to the Smithsonian.
Starlink has 8,460 functioning satellites, according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The Smithsonian's panoramic camera for the canceled Apollo 18 mission measures about 1.5 meters long and about 1 meter wide.
The panoramic camera built for the canceled Apollo 18 mission is held in storage by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and measures about 1.5 meters long and 1 meter wide.
The budget provision is designed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center to Space Center Houston adjacent to the Johnson Space Center.