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Visit to the National Air and Space Museum

There are an astoundingly large number of top-notch museums and galleries in Washington, D.C. One of Washington, DC’s top museums, the National Gallery of Art, is renowned for its outstanding collection of international sculptures and paintings.

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National Air and Space Museum:

The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution has the biggest and the most significant collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world. It also exhibits all aspects of human flight, as well as related works of art and archival materials. It runs two notable buildings that simultaneously garner more than eight million people yearly, making it the most popular museum in the nation. The Centre for Earth and Planetary Studies is also housed there. This museum is located on the National Mall and is completely free to visit. The attraction is open daily from 10am-5:30pm. There are various exhibits on display here encompassing some of the most prominent moments of aviation history in the United States.

The Museum has many galleries displaying numerous aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets and other flight related artifacts, as well as a planetarium and an IMAX theater.

National Air and Space Museum exhibitions and collections:

  1. Armstrong Suit and Columbia Together:

The Destination Moon display has so many icons of space history, including Apollo 11 command module Columbia and Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 space suit showed just steps from one another. The spacesuit and the spacecraft both, have endured immense conservation in current years in preparation for their addition in a place of honour in this exhibition. The totality of Destination Moon is a highlight, so do not miss on the story of lunar exploration, including the robotic and crewed space programs that led up to humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface during the Apollo program.

  1. Jackie Cochran’s T-38:

Northrop T-38A Talon was one of the artifacts on show for the first time. Northrop T-38A Talon flown by aviator Jacqueline “Jackie’ Cochran, was the first woman to break the sound barrier in a different jet, flew this T-38 to eight world records for speed, altitude and distance flying in1961. Cochran was a record setter, at the time of her demise in 1980, she held more speed, altitude and distance records than any other pilot in aviation history. The T-38 is on exhibit in the West End Atrium. Moreover, one of the Cochran’s pilot uniforms is on display nearby in Nation of Speed.

  1. Walking on Other Worlds:

The immersive “Walking on Other Worlds” experience at the Kenneth C. Gryphon Exploring the Planets Gallery enables visitors to get an understanding of what life is like in other parts of our solar system. Visitors can have a seven-minute “tour” of seven different worlds in this immersive media exhibition: Venus, Earth’s Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn’s moon Titan, asteroids Ryugu, and comet 67P. It produces an audiovisual experience that introduces visitors to the diversity of worlds in the solar system and gives you the feeling that you’re truly there (no spacesuit necessary) using a nearly 360-degree screen that blends real data and photographs from spacecraft with CGI.

  1. Race Cars and Motorcycles:

For sure you were not prepared for a race car at the National Air and Space Museum. You haven’t seen anything like the new Nation of Speed gallery at Air and Space. The urge of humankind to be the fastest on land, at sea, in the air, and in space in the sake of business, power, and prestige is chronicled in this ten-year exhibition. Other than fast cars and aircraft, the gallery also includes Evel Knievel’s Harley-Davidson, Mario Andretti’s Indy 500-winning race car, Richard Petty’s 200th-winning NASCAR vehicle, and a BMW S 1000 RR motorcycle that Erin Sills used to break the land speed record in 2016. The National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian is lending the Andretti, Petty, and Knievel vehicles.  

  1. An Exhibition about General Aviation:

In the initial years the National Air and Space was open, there was a display regarding general aviation. The gallery unfolds many artifacts that are new to the Museum or have not been on display at the museum in DC in several years like Sean Tucker’s Challenger III aerobatic plane, the Fulton Airphibian and Jerrie Mock’s Cessna 180 Spirit of Columbus. It also displays a Bell 47B helicopter, the first helicopter on display at the Museum in DC in 3 decades.

  1. Science Fiction Artifacts:

A big T-70 X-wing Starfighter flown by Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is new to the display. The screen-used vehicle is on long-term loan from Lucasfilm and is showed hanging outside the Planetarium. Star Trek is also shown in the new exhibitions. The 11 foot studio model of starship Enterprise, used in filming of Star Trek: The Original Series, returns to the display near the Museum entrance and ear tips created for Leonard Nimoy to portray the half-human half-Vulcan Mr. Spock are on the exhibit in the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery.

  1. ISS Cupola:

Use the ISS Cupola interactive in the One World Connected accumulation to experience life as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The Cupola, an observatory module created by the European Space Agency, permits astronauts on board the International Space Station to observe the Sun rise once every 90 minutes. Astronauts see Earth from seven windows at the domed observatory, 250 miles above the planet’s surface. They observe evidence of human action as well as natural world wonders. This interactive provides a broad perspective of Earth as only those who are lucky enough to travel to space can experience it firsthand through a looped sequence of breathtaking footage recorded from the International Space Station. 

  1. Wright Flyer and Other Wright Transport:

Without the original aircraft, the National and Air Space Museum wouldn’t be there: Orville and Wilbur Wright’s 1903 Wright Flyer, which in December 1903 made the first successful powered heavier-than-air flights in history and inaugurated the modern era of aviation. The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age’s focal point, it will be on display. The exhibition discovers the Wright brothers’ development from talented yet modest Midwestern bicycle store proprietors to the inventors of technology that changed the world. One of just five remaining original Wright bicycles is also on show in the gallery.

  1. Exploring the Planets:

You will find three versions of the Mars rovers, huge models of planets to discover the various worlds orbiting the Sun.

  1. Diverse stories:

Don’t miss Georgia ‘Tiny’ Broadwick’s the first woman to parachute from an airplane, parachute in Early Flight. She began tied balloon jumping at the age of 15, and in 1913, she made her maiden airplane jump. Check out a trio of airline uniforms worn by female pilots in America by Air: an American Airlines First Officer uniform worn by Bonnie Tiburzi, the first American woman to fly for a major airline, a United Airlines maternity pilot’s uniform worn by Cynthia Berkeley, and a Frontier Airlines First Officer uniform worn by Emily Howell Warner, the first American woman to fly frequently for a scheduled U.S. commercial airline.  

We introduce readers to Dale White and Chauncey Spencer in Thomas W. Haas We All Fly, who in 1939 took a “Goodwill Flight” from Chicago to Washington, DC, in order to argue for African Americans’ inclusion in both civilian and military flight training.

Places to visit near Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum:

  • Smithsonian National Museum of National History
  • United States Capitol
  • Smithsonian National Zoological Park
  • The White House

Restaurants near the National Air and Space Museum:

  • Starbucks
  • Wall Street Deli
  • Rice Bowl
  • Mitsitam Native Foods Café

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