"Sewing a fine seam—finishing touches are applied to one section of the new spacesuit for NASA's Apollo lunar missions on this long-arm sewing machine, built specially for manufacturing the spacesuits." Hazel Fellows, seated, machine-sewing pieces of an Apollo A7L spacesuit on the production line at International Latex Corporation (ILC), Federica (Dover), Delaware; released Aug. 9, 1968. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Perspective view of Lucus Planum part of the Medusae Fossae Formation, a series of thick deposits found along the highland-lowland dichotomy boundary on Mars. The deposit shown here in this false color, Context Camera (CTX) mosaic, is several kilometers thick.
Credit: Caltech/JPL Global CTX Mosaic of Mars/Smithsonian Institution.
A crowd watching a lion dancer perform outside the museum during the 2023 Lunar New Year Festival.
Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Pinback button memorial depicting Martin Luther King Jr. ca. 1968.
Credit: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Peggy Boyd Petrey.
The reconstructed woolly dog shown at scale with Arctic dogs and spitz breeds in the background to compare scale and appearance; the portrayal does not imply a genetic relationship. Credit: Karen Carr.
Credit: Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren, oil on linen, 2023. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia; Taylor and Wemimo Abbey; Anonymous; Deon Jones and Cameron J. Ross; Lisa Opoku and Loki Muthu; Mack Wilbourn; Charles Young and Andrea Wishom Young.
Rashid Johnson, “Bruise Painting ‘Message to Our Folks,’”2023. Copyright Rashid Johnson.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph by Josh Weilepp/NMAAHC.
Pinback button celebrating the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
