National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, in the National Mall. It is the most popular Smithsonian museum, and over five million people visit it each year. The museum has the most airplanes and spacecraft in the world.
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| Established | July 1, 1976 |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Visitor figures | 10.000.000.000 (2006) |
| Director | Gen. John R. Dailey |
| Curator | Tom Crouch |
| Public transit access | L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro) Maryland Avenue exit. |
| Website | http://www.nasm.si.edu/ |
At the museum
There are many exhibits of famous planes or spacecraft at the museum. Here are a list of some of the most famous ones:
- The original Wright Flyer, which made the first flight in 1903.
- The Spirit of St. Louis, in which Charles Lindbergh made the first solo (one-person) flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- The Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, in which Chuck Yeager made the first powered supersonic (faster than sound) flight.
- A model of Mariner 2, the first space probe to fly by another planet (Venus).
- A part of the Apollo 11 ship, the first mission to land on the moon.
- A German V-2 rocket, the first man-made thing to reach space.
- A rock from Mars (a meteorite).
- A rock from the Moon that anyone can touch.
- A model of the starship USS Enterprise from the science fiction television series Star Trek.
- A copy of Skylab, America's first space station.
- A model of one of the Voyager probes, which went to the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
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The Spirit of St. Louis, flown by aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1927 on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
The Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia carried astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins to the Moon and back during the first human lunar landing mission, July 1969
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Dedication of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian
The Milestones of Flight entrance hall of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Among the visible aircraft are Spirit of St. Louis, the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, SpaceShipOne, the Bell X-1, and (far right) John Glenn's Friendship 7 capsule.
Paramount's filming model of the Star Trek starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) under restoration, prior to it being placed on display at the NASM
1959 Chevrolet Corvette C1 on display in the NASM’s Nation of Speed exhibit
Apollo Lunar Module LM-2, which was used for ground testing the spacecraft
Replica of an Apollo space suit at the National Museum of Air and Space.
Apollo 15 mission: space suit worn on the Moon by David Scott in 1971
