“Startup studio” Pioneer Square Labs has added another big name to its leadership board: Peter Denton, who is serving as the company’s marketing lead. Denton comes to PSL after nearly… Read More
The Smithsonian Institution has officially put Seattle’s Museum of Flight on the schedule for an exhibit featuring Apollo 11’s moon ship during the 50th anniversary of the historic mission. Seattle… Read More
When historic rocket engine parts from the Apollo moon missions go on display in May in Seattle, museumgoers will be able to compare them with an intact F-1 engine. The… Read More
The billionaires who run Blue Origin and SpaceX – Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – may be locked in an outer-space rivalry, but the engineers who get the job done say they’re rooting… Read More
It’s been almost a year since Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos unveiled pieces of the Saturn V rocket engines that propelled Apollo’s astronauts to the moon – and now you can watch… Read More
I’ve been to Mars to kick the tires on NASA’s Curiosity rover – and you can take that trip as well. Not in reality, of course, but in virtual reality: The… Read More
You can’t buy stuff from billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture on Amazon just yet, but just wait: Sixteen years after its founding, Blue Origin offers enough symbols, mottos and mascots to… Read More
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is laying the groundwork for a 50th-anniversary traveling exhibit featuring Apollo 11 space hardware, including the moon mission’s command module – and Seattle’s Museum… Read More
Someday, you’ll be printing out a landing pad to guide an Amazon drone to its delivery, or maybe taking a suborbital space trip on a Blue Origin rocket ship, or… Read More
It’s not easy to crawl through the guts of a World War II bomber, but a new virtual reality project from Microsoft and Seattle’s Museum of Flight turns it into… Read More
The latest addition to the Museum of Flight’s airplane collection, a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet jet, landed in Seattle today with the aid of a three-story-high crane. The No. 2… Read More
A Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet jet is closing in on its new home at Seattle’s Museum of Flight – without flying a single mile. Instead, the partially disassembled jet has been… Read More
Once upon a time, entrepreneurs were counting down to a date in 2018 when the first space elevator would open for business. NASA was setting aside millions of dollars to promote… Read More
A 30-year-old Navy F/A-18 Hornet jet that’s been through combat duty as well as a dozen years with the Blue Angels is being packed up in Florida for ground delivery… Read More
One of the F/A-18 Hornet jets used by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels is due to be landing in Seattle’s Museum of Flight … to stay. Word of the deal was… Read More
The Boeing Company pulled out all the stops today to celebrate its 100th birthday – from the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, to the “Boeing 100” flag flying… Read More
The line between “can we really do that?” and pure science fiction seems to blur more every day, especially when it comes to space exploration. A cutting-edge, digitally animated film… Read More
Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above and Beyond,” a traveling exhibition that opens this weekend, is… Read More
Today’s final flight of the first Boeing 727 prototype jet ever produced was one of the shortest trips it’s made in its 53-year history: a 15-minute jaunt from a restoration… Read More
Think of it as “Antiques Roadshow” for the aerospace set: The Boeing Co. is looking for historical artifacts and memorabilia that will help the company tell the story of its… Read More
It’s been 30 years since the loss of the shuttle Challenger and its crew on Jan. 28, 1986, but its impact is still being felt – sometimes with sadness, sometimes with hope… Read More
The Big Bang never looked, or sounded, so good: The piece de resistance for this week’s SpaceFest in Seattle is a symphonic review of 13.8 billion years of cosmic history,… Read More
“The Martian” isn’t due to hit theaters until Oct. 2, but the highly anticipated man-vs.-Mars movie is already sparking some scientific nitpicking. So here’s some advice from NASA astronaut Michael… Read More
Experts are wrapping up their conservation work on the decades-old Saturn V rocket engine parts that were recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to an effort backed… Read More
The Boeing Co. and June Boeing today announced a $30 million donation to the Museum of Flight to expand its science, technology, engineering, and math-related (STEM) education opportunities, particularly for underrepresented… Read More
The re-creation of a historic World War II military air route kicks off on Saturday out of Seattle, in large part thanks to a gaming company. Wargaming.net, the 17-year-old MMO developer and publisher… Read More
The leaders of Seattle’s Museum of Flight see the institution not just as a place for historical artifacts, but as a catalyst for the future of aviation and space. The museum, perched… Read More
If you love everything aerospace and geocaching, this challenge is for you. The Museum of Flight and Geocaching are having a contest to build the next great geocache. Called the… Read More
Can we stop asteroids from slamming into Earth? Will people live in space? Are astronauts going back to the moon? An accomplished group of four former and current NASA astronauts discussed fascinating… Read More
Alaska Airlines will fund a new Aerospace Education Center at Seattle’s Museum of Flight with a gift of $2.5 million, aiming to promote and enable science, technology, engineering and math… Read More