Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Significant Voyages
Beginning in 1961, NASA used this quartz oscillator as the main timing and radio frequency standard at the Goldstone tracking station.
NASA planned to place the Ranger 1 satellite into an elliptical orbit around Earth, but it never reaching its intended orbit.
Distance flier and polar explorer
The view from the rim of Bonneville Crater on Mars.
The Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, flown by Charles Lindbergh on his 1927 Atlantic crossing, is one of the Museum’s most treasured artifacts.
One of six ships of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the Porpoise sailed around the world between 1838 and 1842.
Snakes, South America (Callirhinus patagoniensis, Dendrophis prasinus)
This sword made from shark teeth was collected by the U.S. Exploring Expedition in the Gilbert Islands.
Josiah Perkins Creesy, Jr. commanded the ship, and, uncommon for the time, his wife Eleanor navigated. As a child in Massachusetts, she had learned navigation skills from her seafaring father.