AirSpace

Podcast

AirSpace

National Air and Space Museum

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<p>We see the connections to aviation and space in literally everything. From our favorite movies and the songs in our playlists to the latest news of space exploration and your commercial flight home for the holidays – aerospace is literally everywhere you look. Twice a month, our hosts riff on some of the coolest stories of aviation and space history, news, and culture. We promise, whether you’re an AVGeek, wannabe Space Camper, or none of the above, you’ll find a connection to your life and learn something interesting in the process.</p>

Episodes

1. Star Trek at 60: AirSpace Live!

Star Trek: The Original Series only aired for three seasons (1966 to 1969), but it launched a fanbase that transformed pop culture. Trek fans pioneered letter-writing campaigns, cosplay, and modern fa...
Oct 8, 202636m

AirSpace Bonus! Escape this Podcast: Star Search

We’ll be back with new AirSpace episodes on October 8th. In the meantime, here’s something a little different. AirSpace co-hosts Matt and Emily recently guest-starred on Escape This Podcast, where the...
Sep 24, 20261h 15m

AirSpace Revisited: Me and the Sky

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, we're looking back on our 2020 episode about the Broadway musical Come From Away. If you’re a Broadway fan, you’ve likely heard about C...
Sep 10, 202631m

AirSpace Revisited: Art Decade

The National Air and Space Museum's newly renovated building in Washington D.C. includes a beautiful new art gallery to showcase the museum's extensive collection of art, much of which came from the N...
Aug 27, 202624m

50 Years: Onward and Upward

If you haven’t been to the National Air and Space Museum in D.C. for a while, you may notice a few things have changed…actually, just about everything in the building, including the building itself, h...
Aug 20, 202622m

50 Years: New Ideas

As the National Air and Space Museum built its collection and its identity, it also needed to find its footing as a place for science and research. In the third episode of our four-part limited series...
Jul 23, 202624m

50 Years: Origins

The National Air and Space Museum’s building in downtown Washington DC just turned 50 years old, but the Museum’s story began long before the ribbon-cutting in 1976. In this episode, we’re continuing ...
Jul 9, 202629m

50 Years: Opening Day

On July 1, 1976, the National Air and Space Museum opened its doors to the public. It was an unforgettable debut for an iconic building, complete with a flyover from the Air Force’s Thunderbirds, spee...
Jun 25, 202627m

AirSpace Bonus! Sidedoor: The Wright Sister

We'll be back soon with new episodes of AirSpace! In the mean time, here's a treat from our friends at Sidedoor. <a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/wright-brothers">Orville and Wilbu...
Jun 11, 202640m

AirSpace Revisited: How Do You Sleep?

One of the most commonly asked questions about living and working in space is where and how the astronauts sleep. Watching the astronauts set up their sleeping arrangements on the recent Artemis II mi...
May 28, 202626m

12. Whirly-Girl #13

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, helicopters were creating quite a buzz. After limited use during World War II, manufacturers ramped up production and enthusiasm for vertical flight soared. Although...
May 14, 202627m

11. Snoopy in the Sky

IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A . . . DOGHOUSE? Throughout Charles Schulz's Peanuts stories, Snoopy has used his incomparable imagination to go on iconic aviation and space adventures. He's transfor...
Apr 23, 202621m

GO, SPEED RACERS! The 1929 Women's Air Derby

SPEED . . . SKILL . . . SABOTAGE? In August 1929, twenty pilots took off from Santa Monica in a historic and thrilling air race. The all-female lineup—including big names like Amelia Earhart, Pancho B...
Apr 9, 202627m

9. A Tale of Two Satellites

In the Cold War, space was a new and critical frontier for intelligence. Many early satellites were spy satellites (although they did a bit of science, too). In this episode, we learn about two early ...
Mar 26, 202640m

Scandalous

Today on AirSpace: the scandal of the century! Matt and Emily are joined by friend of the show and Museum curator Bob van der Linden to learn all the twists and turns of the Air Mail Crisis of 1934. ...
Mar 12, 202625m

7. Kings of the Capsule

July 24th, 1969. After their historic mission to the Moon’s surface and back, there was one final step in the Apollo 11 mission: splashdown. As the command module floated (gracefully, we are sure) in ...
Feb 26, 202638m

6. Gone to the Dogs

Unfortunately, there are still more humans than dogs in the average airport terminal. Still, it’s not uncommon to see dogs as you run to catch your flight. Some dogs, like humans, are just travelers p...
Feb 12, 202631m

5. AirSpace Live! Cooking in Space

Space travel is hungry work. Humans have spent nearly six decades experimenting with different ways to feed astronauts (with mixed reviews). As astronauts live and work in space on longer missions fur...
Jan 22, 202635m

4. Movie Mini: Arrival

Science fiction heroes aren't usually humanities professors, but Arrival  (2016) is the exception to that rule. Amy Adams stars as Dr. Louise Banks, who may be the only person on Earth who can figure ...
Jan 8, 202623m

3. Miasma of Incandescent Plasma

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how we wonder . . . well, where to even begin? How do stars form from gas and dust? Why do some stars go supernova? And what the heck is the "main sequence?"  We brough...
Dec 25, 202524m