Air & Space

Air & Space/Smithsonian

March 2003 cover of Air & Space/Smithsonian
Editor	Linda Musser Shiner
Categories	aviation, human spaceflight, history, current events
Frequency	6 per year
Publisher	Smithsonian Enterprises
Total circulation (2013)	192,158
First issue	April 1986
Country	United States
Based in	Washington DC
Language	American English
Website	AirSpaceMag.com
ISSN	0886-2257

Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine is a bimonthly magazine put out by the National Air and Space Museum. Its first publishing was in April of 1986. Because the museum is a part of the Smithsonian Institution, which puts out its own Smithsonian magazine, the magazine's full title is Air & Space/Smithsonian. Therefore, the word "Smithsonian" appears on the cover, just beneath "AIR&SPACE", in a much smaller size. The Air and Space/Smithsonian explain their magazine:

Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has been delighting aerospace enthusiasts with the best writing about their favorite subject since April 1986. The bimonthly magazine emphasizes the human stories behind the hardware and has established a track record of getting its readers into those places of the aerospace industry marked "authorized personnel only."

As an adjunct of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Air & Space magazine matches the grand scope of the Museum, encompassing every era of aviation and space exploration, and publishes extensively about the Museum collection. With stories that range from the German airmen whose unlucky task it was to crew World War I zeppelins to the design of NASA's next lunar lander, Air & Space seeks to surprise its audience with a wealth of detail about aviation and spaceflight.

Articles in the magazine involve topics related to aviation, space travel, and space-related physics.