Learn about the history and dynamics of hot-air balloons.
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Find out how Bernoulli’s principle helps explain lift.
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Kepler’s laws show the effects of gravity on orbits. They apply to any object that orbits another: planets orbiting the Sun, moons orbiting a planet, spacecraft orbiting Earth.
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Without air, balloons and birds and airplanes couldn’t fly. But since you can’t taste, see, or often even feel air, how can you prove it’s really there?
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Learn about what happens to vehicles at hypersonic speeds and what happens to air at high speeds.
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Learn how things fly
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If you visited another world, you would notice a change in your weight, because the force of gravity acting on you there would be different from the force of gravity here on Earth.
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Join Captain Jim Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13 and National Air and Space Museum curator Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony for a discussion about Apollo 13. This live chat was recorded on April 16th, 2020.
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Join museum curators to learn about Moon photography from the Apollo missions to today!
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This edition of the Air and Space Live Chat with Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, curator and department chair of the Space History department at the National Air and Space Museum.
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