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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.

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Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

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Women in Aviation and Space Family Day

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Bob Hoover Gives an Air Show Performance

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Astronaut Eugene Cernan dines aboard the Apollo 17 command module.
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Apollo Astronaut Life

Patent for Robert Goddard's Impoved Rocket Design
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Innovative People in Early Rocketry

Vanguard 1 Satellite Model
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Communications Satellites

The Earth, brilliant blue with swirling white clouds, partly obscured by shadow, stands against a stark sky in this iconic photograph.
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Observing our Planet

Silver-coated, full-body flight suit with various spots for tubes to be placed.
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Spacesuits

A jet aircraft emerging from a cone shaped cloud of vapor in the air.
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Speed

A conical brown command module seemingly floats in front of a photograph of the moon's surface and the sun behind it.
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Apollo 11 Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft

A ‘selfie’ image taken by the Perseverance rover with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in the background.
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Perseverance and Ingenuity

A simple aircraft in the air.
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Power and Control in the Air

A biplane sits on a long wooden rail on the ground. A group of people stand behind it.
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Researching the Wright Way

Wind Tunnel
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The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Apollo 16 ALSEP
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Tools and Technology from the Apollo Program

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Open daily 10:00 am – 5:30 pm

National Air and Space Museum

6th Street and Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC

202-633-2214

Free Timed-Entry Passes Required

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

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