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Pressure Suit, A7-L, Armstrong, Apollo 11, Flown

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.
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National Air and Space Museum Opens Five New Galleries July 28

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.
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Mapping the Moon with the Lunar Orbiter

If you are traveling somewhere new, you are more than likely going to need some form of map to get there. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave the United States a mandate: Before the decade was out ...
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Milestones of Flight: The Epic of Aviation with the National Air and Space Museum

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.
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SR-71 Pressure Suit

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.
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The Best Wood for World War I Airplanes

To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce. America needed airplanes—lots of them. It was the spring of 1917, and the United States ...
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National Air and Space Museum Bezos Learning Center

The Smithsonian Institution received a $200 million donation from Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chair of Amazon, and founder of aerospace and space flight company Blue Origin. A portion of the ...
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Diamonds in the Sky

Meet the first woman to fly jet formations as a Blue Angel. Lieutenant Commander Amanda Lee began her assignment to the Blue Angels as the #3 Left Wing pilot. This year, she is flying the #4 Slot ...
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Aviation Explorers Camp

The National Air and Space Museum hopes to expand interest and capabilities in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) fields by engaging and empowering our Aviation Explorers to seek ...
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Snoopy In Space

How a cartoon beagle helped popularize NASA’s Apollo program. A Snoopy doll sold in 1969 wears a spacesuit and carries a flight safety pack, reflecting his role as a mascot for NASA’s Space Flight ...
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Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, ...