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In an effort to expand its role as a center for
research and science education, the Museum creates
a Laboratory for Astrophysics. |
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The Museum signs an agreement with Air France providing
the collection with a Concorde aircraft,
a supersonic commercial transport, after the plane
has been retired from active service (April 16). |
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A major new gallery, Beyond
the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age,
opens to the public(May 12). |
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The Museum celebrates the 20th anniversary of
the first lunar landing, with a public ceremony
that features the three Apollo astronauts-Neil Armstrong,
Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Invited guests
include President George Bush and Vice President
Dan Quayle. Later, the Museum hosts a Lunar Landing
Party, with closed circuit monitors replaying in
"real" time the original television coverage
of the Moon landing (July 20). |
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Visitors to the Museum watch live broadcasts from
the Voyager 2 spacecraft racing toward Neptune
fed directly to the Museum from NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (August 24). |
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