WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) --When Kathryn Jones began to visit Washington's museums in January, she didn't plan to make it her full-time pursuit. But after 112 exhibits and hundreds of hours spent ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

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In the two centuries since the Gothic novel's publication, the English writer's tale of a science experiment gone wrong has captivated audiences around the world and taken on a life of its own Kayla ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of Justice involved. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Texas Senators have ...

One of Fort Collins' most famous faces will be displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Temple Grandin, distinguished professor in CSU’s Department of ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

Artist David Lenz was commissioned by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery to paint a portrait of Dr. Temple Grandin. Grandin, a renowned autism educator and animal science professor, is famous ...

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test pilots, white men trained to push the envelope of flight, not question ...

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