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1992
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The Museum, NASA, and the Planetary Society host
the largest gathering of planetary rovers ever
with its "Rover Expo" featuring 16 walkers,
crawlers, and wheeled rovers moving over a simulated
Mars terrain (September 1).
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Historian Emeritus and Ramsey Fellow Paul E.
Garber, whose 72-year association with the Smithsonian
Institution was a driving force in expanding the
aeronautical collection, dies at age 93. Museum
Director Martin Harwit says, "Without him,
and his persistence, the Museum might never have
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A portrait bust by Eddie Dixon of Eugene Jacques
Bullard (1894-1961), the first black combat
pilot, is displayed in the Museum's WW I gallery,
Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air (October
15). |
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As a finale to the 1992 Quincentenary commemoration
of Columbus's voyages, the Museum opens Where
Next, Columbus?-an exhibition that examines
the prospects for exploration
and
discovery in the next
500 years (December 12).
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