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Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik cockpit

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Lunar Module LM-2

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Aichi M6A1 Seiran (Clear Sky Storm)

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Wiley Post Pressure Suit

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Maps, Fender Extension, Lunar Roving Vehicle, Apollo 17

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. This ...
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Cancelled: Fighting Fires from the Sky

Due to the federal government shutdown, the National Air and Space Museum is cancelling the November Aviation Adventure Lecture. This lecture may be rescheduled at a future date. Advanced planning and ...
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Young Fault Scarps on the Moon

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Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Spacesuit

This exhibit is now closed. In this display, Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit from the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing was back on the Museum floor for the first time in 13 years. The spacesuit underwent an ...
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A New View of the Rocketdyne F-1 Engine

The Saturn V rocket, the launch vehicle for the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s and 1970s, remains the largest and heaviest rocket ever successfully launched. It stood 363 feet tall (taller than ...
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Agriculture by Air

Crop-dusting was an often hazardous occupation, until a maverick entrepreneur and pilot designed the right airplanes for the job. “It’s the last frontier in aviation,” Leland Snow told an interviewer ...
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SpaceX Dragon Launch and Entry Suits

When you watch astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley make their way out to the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission, you will notice that ...
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What Happened to the Concordes?

These days, it takes seven hours to fly from New York to London, compared to under three hours flying at twice the speed of sound on the Concorde. When I started my internship at the National Air and ...