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Gen. John R. Dailey (USMC,
Ret.), associate administrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, is named director
of the Museum (January 1). |
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The Museum celebrates Space Day with interactive,
hands-on exhibits, spacesuits and demonstrations
illustrating this year's theme, "Living and
Working in Space." Former astronauts Sally
Ride and John Glenn join Museum Director Jack Dailey
in launching "Cyber Space Day," a lively
Webcast from the Museum featuring Dr. Kathryn Clark,
NASA's chief scientist of the International Space
Station, Dr. Bernard Harris, the first African American
astronaut to walk in space, and Phil West, the "gadget
man" at NASA, who is responsible for tools
and vehicles in space (May 4). |
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The Smithsonian Institution breaks ground on a $238
million expansion of the National Air and Space
Museum. The Steven
F. Udvar-Hazy Center, to be located at the
Washington Dulles International Airport, will showcase
approximately 200 aircraft and 100 major space artifacts,
and house hundreds more (October 25). |
The National Air and Space Museum's Trophy
is awarded to the team responsible for the Chandra
X-ray Observatory, and to Scott Crossfield, famed
aviator and
engineer (November 9). |
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