Air Force Museum Foundation

Make sure to visit us this Saturday for "Plane Talks" honoring National Vietnam War Veterans Day! This day provides an opportunity to pay special tribute to the 9 million Americans who served during the Vietnam War era, to the 58,000 names memorialized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and to those who never received the recognition they deserved when they returned to America from war. Make sure to visit the Southeast Asia War Gallery and visit with veterans!

Introducing the newest member of our Events team, Meagan Feltner! Meagan was previously a member of our Attractions (now Visitor Services) Department. She has returned to the Foundation to serve as our Events Administrative Assistant. Welcome back, Meagan - we're glad you're here!

Join us this Thursday evening as our 2025 Celebrating Aviation series continues with a program on Project Recover and a screening of the film To What Remains. ??

Today is National Medal of Honor Day. Please join us in recognizing and honoring all those who have been awarded our nation's highest military award for valor.

The countdown is ON! #OceanXpo is tomorrow! ???? Don’t miss this free event where ocean and space exploration collide! ?? ??Saturday, March 22, 2025 ?? National Museum of the U.S. Air Force ? 10 AM – 3 PM Tag your adventure buddies and make plans to explore, learn, and discover with us! ?????? #STEMadventures #DiscoverMore

?? Join Us for ASL-Interpreted Tours! ????? This Saturday, March 22, the museum is offering American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted tours in collaboration with Sinclair Community College’s Interpreter Education Program. ?? Tours Times: 10 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, & 3 pm ?? Location: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force ? No registration required – just show up and explore aviation history! Don't miss this opportunity to experience the stories of the U.S. Air Force with enhanced accessibility. Tag a friend who might be interested! #ASLTour #AccessibleHistory #AviationHistory

This month's Throwback Thursday story (from the Winter 2020 issue of the Friends Journal) is about the author’s time at Vandenberg AFB, California, from 1961-1965. His duty was first assembling and later launching Atlas missiles at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands to test the characteristics of different re-entry vehicles – the shaped containers for the nuclear warheads carried by operational Atlas, Titan, and Minuteman ICBMs. Atlas and Titan missiles were used to support the U.S.’s unmanned and manned space programs. This connection between USAF ICBM’s and NASA will be the focus of the redesign of the Missile and Space Galleries at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force? to be called Pathways to Space: Rockets for War and Peace. Be sure to follow along to continue receiving updates about this exciting new exhibit the Foundation is supporting! Historical note: March 21, 1965: Ranger IX, a 10-foot, an 800-pound spacecraft and the last of the series, launched from Cape Kennedy aboard an Atlas Agena rocket. It impacted within 4 miles of the target area on the moon in the crater Alphonsus on 24 March. It sent back the first TV pictures from the moon and took 5,814 photos of the moon's surface. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/gN6qQ6uS

Join us tomorrow evening as we kick off our 2025 Celebrating Aviation series.

Our eyes are smiling today! Happy St. Patrick's Day from our Foundation team ?? ?? And a big thank you to our Events team for the festive treats!

The Foundation proudly provided funding to help make the refreshed and expanded Women Air Force Service Pilots or WASP exhibit possible at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Learn more about the fascinating history of the first female pilots in the U.S. military by visiting the Museum’s World War II Gallery, located in Building 1.