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Do You Have the Need for Speed?

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Mae Jemison

Women Who Defy

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Setting Records in the Blackbird

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Profile of Ride in the Space Shuttle

Breaking the Highest Glass Ceiling

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WASP climbing into a Lockheed P-38 preparatory to ferrying mission

Fly Girl

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Apollo at 50

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While both of our locations are temporarily closed, we encourage you to explore air and space through our online content.

The exterior of the National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum

Washingon, DC

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The exterior of the Steven H. Udvar-Hazy center.

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Chantilly, VA

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Museum Transformation

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A major renovation is underway as we reimagine all 23 galleries and presentation spaces i our iconic National Mall building in Washington, DC.  Join us as we inspire a new generation of pioneers and explorers.

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At a deeper level, I think the museum makes visitors feel proud to be human –

to be members of a species that has traveled from a lonely beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to the dusty surface of the moon in less than seven decades..." - John H. Glenn, Jr

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