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A Viking
Lander spacecraft, identical to the two
that landed on the surface of Mars in 1976, is displayed
in the Milestones of Flight gallery. |
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British sculptor Rowland Emett's The S.S. (Space
Ship) Pussiewillow II, commissioned by the Museum,
becomes part of the permanent collection. |
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Early
Flight, a new gallery that re-creates a
1913 aeronautical exhibition, opens to the public. |
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The Silver Hill Museum is renamed the Paul
E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage
Facility, recognizing the contributions
of Paul Garber, NASM's historian emeritus and Ramsey
Fellow, who joined the Smithsonian in 1920 and was
responsible for acquiring a large portion of the
Museum's aeronautical collection. |
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The Museum provides live, real-time coverage of
the Voyager fly-by of Saturn,
a planetarium show on Saturn, and a theater presentation
of Voyager's encounter with Jupiter. |
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The largest piece of the fabric that covered the
original 1903 Wright Flyer is donated to the Museum
by Ivonette Miller of Dayton, Ohio, a niece of the
Wright brothers. |
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