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Museum staff and volunteers pose with ten social media participants inside the Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Social Meetup Before Udvar-Hazy Center Open House Social

Bird's eye view of visitors inside the Museum's restoration hangar during an open house event.

Tour of the Restoration Hangar

A white male archives specialist at the museum poses below a silver commercial airplane.

Allan Janus with Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Clipper Flying Cloud"

A white male specialist at the museum poses in front of a yellow monoplane with a shark mouth painted on the lower nose.

Museum Selfie with the Curtiss P-40

View of Venus in a waxing crescent phase during daytime hours. The crescent is just barely visible and is very thin.

Venus - January 19, 2014

Two disk views of the Sun, side-by-side. The left disc view shows the surface of the Sun, which has a few sunspots visible as dark spots. The right disk view of the Sun features the same sunspots as well as phages (lighter color clouds). Dark lines called filaments and gases floating away from the surface called prominences are also visible on the disk.

The Sun - January 12, 2014

Dr. Ross Irwin, a white male geologist, poses for a portrait.

Dr. Ross Irwin

A full-scale model of a robotic rover used for exploration on Mars. It is on display at the Museum.

Mars Exploration Rover: Full-Scale Model

Exhibit entrance to a Mars Rover exhibit featuring a large, wall-length photo of Mars's landscape with the logo of the exhibit.

"Spirit & Opportunity: 10 Years Roving on Mars" Exhibit Entrance

Multiple parts of the Rover robotic unit inside a display celebrating the Rovers. An electronic module made of multiple metal pieces can be seen on the left. On the right side, a cylindrical prism with one open side represents another part of the Rover.

Rover Parts in "Spirit & Opportunity" Exhibit

An open area of an exhibit on Mars Rovers with nearby pictures of Mars taken by the Rovers and a small exhibit table.

"Spirit & Opportunity: 10 Years Roving Across Mars" Exhibit Space

A red and light green police patrol rocket ship with a figure inside the open cockpit.

Buck Rogers Police Patrol Ship

The Museum's director and famed pilot stand beside Hoover's green and white Shrike Commander.

Robert A. "Bob" Hoover and General J. R. Dailey

Oil painting of an astronaut during a spacewalk.

Contact Light by Michael Kagan

Four separate samples of a World War II era aircraft where adhesives were used on two sections of structural supports (A and B) and on spacer blocks (C and D).

Horten Ho 229 V3 Adhesive Samples

Two microscopic views of one thin section of an adhesive with multtiple black and orange particles visible in the light brown-colored adhesive. The right view shows measurements for the particles.

Thin Sections of Kaurit WHK Adhesive on Horten Ho 229 V3