National Air and Space Museum
Futures in Space
July 28, 2025 – Indefinitely
The Futures in Space explores the potential near- and long-term futures that may emerge with advances in space exploration technology and enterprise. The gallery features developing technologies that bring down the cost of space, aim to inaugurate the era of commercial and tourist spaceflight, expand robotic planetary exploration and resource extraction, and keep humans alive in new environments. Futures in Space also explores the as-yet unanswered social, political, and economic questions that emerge along with these new activities: Who decides who goes to space? Why do we go? And what will we do when we get there?
Display case featuring both real-life and creative space-related artifacts, including board games, video game paraphernalia, and President Lyndon B. Johnson’s NASA hard hat.
