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Air Space Museum Photo Tour

The National Air and Space Museum has 50,000 artifacts and thousands of additional artifacts come at different parts of the year.
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Hightlight Exibitions of Air Space Museum

The North American X-15, a rocket plane used for hypersonic flight research. A replica of Pioneer 10 (actually the functional Pioneer H), the first space probe launched on a trajectory to escape the solar system, and the first to visit Jupiter. The Spirit of St. Louis, in which Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built and piloted vehicle to reach space, designed by Burt Rutan and built by his company, Scaled Composites. Voyager, a Burt Rutan-designed plane in which Burt's brother Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager made the first non-stop non-refueled circumnavigation of Earth. The Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, in which Chuck Yeager made the first powered supersonic level flight. A model of Mariner 2, the first probe to successfully fly by another planet (Venus). The Bell XP-59 Airacomet, the first viable American jet aircraft. A model of Robert H. Goddard's original 1926 liquid-fueled rocket. The command module Columbia of Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the moon. A model of the Viking 1 lander, the first probe to successfully land on the surface of Mars. The gondola of the Breitling Orbiter 3, the first balloon to circumnavigate the Earth nonstop. The Friendship 7 capsule, in which John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. One of the very few lunar rock samples accessible to the public. The Gemini 4 capsule, which carried America's first spacewalker, Ed White. An American Pershing missile and a Soviet SS-20 missile. Wright Flyer at the Air and Space Museum A German V-2 rocket constructed from captured components, the first man-made object to reach space. A rock from Mars (a meteorite). The original filming model of the starship USS Enterprise from the science fiction television series Star Trek. The television camera of Surveyor 3, which was brought back from the moon by Apollo 12. A backup copy of Skylab, America's first space station. The Northrop M2-F3, a lifting body that was a precursor to the Space Shuttle Orbiter. A model of one of the Voyager probes, which famously explored all of the solar system's gas giants in the 1980s. Models of the full Apollo CSM, Soyuz spacecraft and docking module from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, all connected as the real articles were in orbit. The nose/front section of a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 Classic.