NATIONAL AIR SPACE MUSEUM
SMITHSONIAN
WASHINGTON DC
STATI UNITI
18TH AUGUST 2014
Overlooking the world famous National Mall the National Air and Space Museum is considered the largest museum in the world with a unique display of aerial and space artifacts. With free admission, the museum records a presence of visitors that touches about 8 million each year, making it the most famous and requested museum in the United States of America.The museum officially opened in the 1920s thanks to the passion for the flight world of Joseph Henry, a pioneer in flying with the balloons and the first curator of the museum. First seat of the Museum the Building of Arts and Industry, known to most with the nickname of The Tin Hut. The continuous increase of artifacts and aircrafts forced the direction of the museum to look for a new location, thus allowing an expansion of the objects, but above all turning the exhibition area to the wonders of the Moon, the space and those that were the various achievements of the man in the space world.
Lockheed JF-104A Starfighter 818 NASA
The current location is inaugurated on July 1, 1976 and since then has continued to increase for the joy of all lovers of the flight its wonderful collection. Describing the whole collection would be simple utopia, just think that the museum that runs on 2 floors preserves about 6000 artifacts including aircraft, historic objects, photographs, balloons, engines, missiles, uniforms, space suits and more. Just to name a few in the exhibition area it is possible to admire the Spirit of St. Luis aircraft with which Charles A. Lindbergh on May 20th and May 21st 1927 made the first solo and non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
Bell X-1-1 Air Force Serial Number 46-062
The Lockheed 5B Vega with which on 21 May 1932 Amelia Earhart made the feat of flying from Newfoundland to Londonderry in Northern Ireland in fourteen and fifty-six minutes, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean alone.The museum not only embraces the world of flying from its trees to modern planes but great space and prominence is given to the space world with objects concerning lunar shipments as the command module of Apollo 11 which on July 20, 1969 accomplished the lunar landing.
This and many other stories are collected in one of the most beautiful collections of materials concerning the fantastic world of flight.
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