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On #TDIH in 1804, asteroid 3 Juno was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. 📷: Artist rendering of 3 Juno by @CenterforAstro

On the first of September in 1933, the International Air Races and Gordon Bennett Balloon Races began outside Chicago. This poster promoting the event is part of our poster collection. Discover more: s.si.edu/3WDmCZC

#OTD in 1945, World War II officially ended when representatives from the Empire of Japan met with those of the United States and other Allied nations to sign the surrender document aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

On #TDIH in 1910, Blanche Stuart Scott became the first American woman to take a solo hop into the air. The 40-foot hop was unofficial, but her audacity is official in our eyes. Learn more about Scott: s.si.edu/3L5p2v3

Today in 1937, the Grumman F4F Wildcat flew for the first time. By 1942, every American Navy fighter squadron flew the aircraft. More on the Wildcat in our collection: s.si.edu/3L6MKXV #AirSpacePhoto

Contact with the Mars-bound Soviet spacecraft Phobos 1 was lost on #TDIH in 1988. A faulty command sequence that was sent caused the spacecraft to shut down.

After the Japanese instrument of surrender was signed on the deck of the USS Missouri #OTD in 1945, hundreds of Allied aircraft flew overhead in a celebration of the end of both the Pacific War and #WorldWarII as a whole. More on the blog: s.si.edu/480onVG

Back in the day, airlines gave you all kinds of things on planes that you could then take home as a souvenir of your flight experience. Today, it's less common, but that makes the hold-outs all the more special. We explore in the latest AirSpace from the National Air and Space Museum: s.si.edu/4dY3ixb

The Viking 2 lander touched down on the surface of Mars #OTD in 1976. A Viking lander test article is in our collection: s.si.edu/3sDCY9g #AirSpacePhoto

On #TDIH in 1908, the Wright brothers began flight trials on an aircraft built for the US Army Signal Corps. In 1909, the Wright Military Flyer became the first military airplane: s.si.edu/3QgGdtR #AirSpacePhoto

“You didn't have airport infrastructure, so it just made more sense. If you can land on water, then you have the largest runway in the world.” #ASQ tells the story of the flying boat: its past, present, and probable future: s.si.edu/3LxWYQB

When Viking 2 landed today in 1976 on the Red Planet it took its first image of the surface within minutes. The picture reveals a wide variety of rocks littering a surface of fine-grained deposit.

Lt. James H. Doolittle was the first to make a transcontinental flight in a single day. He took off on #TDIH in 1922 from Florida, made a refueling stop in Texas, and landed in California. Doolittle traveled a total of 2,163 miles in 21 hours and 20 minutes.

#OTD in 1923, US Navy airship ZR-1 "Shenandoah," the first rigid airship made in the United States and the first to be inflated with helium, made its first flight. We have a receiver from the airship on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center: s.si.edu/33a3VkD

We acquired Steve Fossett's Bud Light Spirit of Freedom gondola on this day in 2002. That's the gondola in which he made the first solo flight around the world in a balloon. The trip lasted 14 days and 19 hours: s.si.edu/4e9NI1E #AirSpacePhoto

Last chance! Our aviation merch collection closes on September 8. Show off your passion for aviation with items celebrating iconic aircraft and aviators like Bell X-1, the Supermarine Spitfire, the Tuskegee Airmen, and more. Shop now: s.si.edu/3VVyQgS

90 years ago today, Wiley Post reached the stratosphere in his Lockheed Vega "Winnie Mae." The aircraft didn't have a pressurized cabin, so he wore a pressure suit and helmet designed for him by the B.F. Goodrich Company, which is in our collection.

40 years ago today, Space Shuttle Discovery completed its maiden voyage on mission STS-41D. Over the next 27 years, it would go to space 38 more times—more than any other space shuttle in the fleet. Discovery is on display at our Udvar-Hazy Center: s.si.edu/3AJR2lv

The Boeing 247 was 50 percent faster than its competitors and the aircraft's innovative design launched a new generation of commercial airliners. The Museum's 247-D made its first flight 90 years ago today: s.si.edu/3sHQIjk

#OTD in 1977, Voyager 1 launched on what is still an ongoing mission to explore outer planets Jupiter and Saturn, and now interstellar space: s.si.edu/3RaRQWP