Meet at the Museum "Great Seal", in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall on the first floor.

About the Ask an Expert lecture series: Every Wednesday at noon in the National Mall Building, a Museum staff member talks to the public about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the Museum.

Space Race contains a wealth of artifacts from both the U.S. and Soviet space programs. They range from the huge Skylab Orbital Workshop (left background), which you can enter, to a tiny arming key from Sputnik 1. Among the larger highlights are a German V-2 missile and V-1 "buzz bomb" (left), a cluster of rockets and missiles (foreground), and a Tomahawk cruise missile (right).

How to attend

National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC

6th St. and Independence Ave SW. Washington, DC 20560