National Air and Space Museum

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The Spirit of St. Louis , with which Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic on May 20, 1927, is one of the museum's most famous exhibits

The National Air and Space Museum ( NASM ; German " National Air and Space Museum ") is one of the Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum in the United States . It consists of three plants. Two of these are open to the public: the National Mall Museum in Washington, DC and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia .

National Mall Museum

The Apollo Lunar Module in the National Air and Space Museum is a specimen that was used for testing purposes on Earth. The exhibit is decorated in such a way that it looks similar to the landing module of Apollo 11 .
The Gossamer Condor aircraft powered by muscle power , which won the first Kremer Prize in 1977

The National Mall Museum is located in a building in the park of the same name in Washington, DC. It shows numerous exhibits from the history of aviation and space travel, including the Spirit of St. Louis or Rock from the Moon .

Among other things, the following exhibits are on display in the National Air and Space Museum:

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Steven F. Udvar-Házy Center
Boeing Aviation Hangar

Because a spatial expansion of the National Mall Museum was not possible, a new location was established in Virginia with the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. This new location is south of Washington-Dulles-International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia . It opened in December 2003. The building is named after Steven F. Udvar-Házy , a patron of the museum, who is closely connected and well-known to the aviation industry through the ILFC .

The new complex offers much larger areas and buildings than the main building.

  • At the center is the large Boeing Aviation Hangar , in which exhibits are displayed on three levels. Exhibits such as an SR-71 Blackbird , the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay or a Concorde can be viewed there.
  • The somewhat smaller James S. McDonnell Space Hangar exhibits, among other things, the Space Shuttle Discovery .
  • The complex is complemented by the Donald D. Engen Observation Tower . The observation tower provides a panoramic view of Washington Dulles International Airport and its surroundings.
  • The latest addition is the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar , where visitors can view current restoration work on historical exhibits.

  • Entrance area of ​​the complex

  • James S. McDonnell Space Hangar

Exhibits
The SR-71A Blackbird
The B-29 Enola Gay
Robinson R44 in the Boeing Aviation hangar

The exhibition in the Steven Udvar-Házy Center includes a variety of exhibits from the field of aerospace. In addition to airplanes, helicopters and ultralight aircraft , engines and aircraft engines are also shown. Famous exhibits are:

Many representatives of German aircraft construction are also exhibited.

Paul E. Garber Facility

There is also another location for the museum, the Paul E. Garber Complex in Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland.

Exhibits are processed and stored here; it is no longer open to the public.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : National Air and Space Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
  2. ↑ Boeing Aviation Hangar
  3. ↑ James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
  4. ↑ On April 19, 2012, the Space Shuttle Enterprise was replaced by the Discovery , and the Enterprise was then handed over to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City. On April 17th, the Discovery landed on the back of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at the neighboring Washington Dulles International Airport .
  5. ↑ Donald D. Engen Observation Tower ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nasm.si.edu
  6. ↑ Mary Baker Narrow Restoration Hangar
  7. ↑ General information about the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
  8. ^ Exhibits in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
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