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The exterior of the National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum

Washington, DC

Closed through Fall 2022

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

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Chantilly, VA

Open Daily

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Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit
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A beige background with cyan decoration, topped with an image of a tee shirt with silhouettes of planes, a hat that says "spitfire" on it, and a pillow showing an orange plane, the Bell X-1.
Shop the Aviation Collection
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Formal studio portrait of Helen G. James, in uniform.
Meet Helen James
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Astronaut standing on crocheted Moon holding a Pride flag
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Upcoming Events

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Rendering of blue, cloudy planet
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Earth, Exoplanets, and Everything in Between
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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Soar Together @ Air and Space: Spies in the Skies
Book Cover:<em>Looking Down</em> by Steve Jenkins
Presented Online
Flights of Fancy Story Time: Looking Down by Steve Jenkins
A plane with blue camouflages and an air force logo.
Presented Online
Air and Space Adventures: Virtual Challenges for Families
Person looking through a telescope
Event
Tour of the Universe
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show
Man wearing glasses and purple shirt in front of a chalk sketch of the James Webb Space Telescope
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show

Past Events

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Portrait of a Chuck Aaron and a photo a helicopter being piloted upside down
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Flying Upside Down: How Chuck Aaron Created Helicopter Aerobatics
Airplanes on display outside the Udvar-Hazy Center.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Innovations in Flight Outdoor Aviation Display
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show
stars in the sky with animal and people shapes over top of the constellations
Presented Online
Shared Planetarium Show
Graphic with telescope and moon that reads Sally's Night
Event
How Do You #ShineLikeSally?
Front page of newspaper with headline: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region”
Presented Online
Live Chat: UFOs and IFOs
Cicular, double-tiered, with many projecting spires coming out around the circumference and tubes of different sizes, along with rods, some curved, projecting from top.
Presented Online
Air and Space Adventures
An illustration of a small boy looking out the window of a large spaceship. Above the illustration is text reading "Alistar in Outer Space."
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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Alistair in Outer Space
Night sky
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Soar Together @ Air and Space In Person Family Day: UFOs: Fact or Fiction?
Night sky
Presented Online
Soar Together @ Air and Space Virtual Family Day: UFOs: Fact or Fiction?
Graphic that says The Real Top Gun
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Member Evening featuring "The Real Top Gun"
Sally ride in a blue astronaut jumpsuit holding a helmet
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Sally Ride: A QueerSpace Instagram Live
Apollo at 50
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Featured Stories
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Black and white image of a man standing in front of an airplane, holding an object in his hand, and looking to the right.
Story
1947: Year of the Flying Saucer
A biplane just barely above the ground with a person standing to the right of it.
Story
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
AirSpace, a podcast, logo
Story
AirSpace Season 6, Ep. 4: Electricity
Wright Cycle Co. Repair Claim Check
Story
Before the Wrights Were Aviators
F4 Phantom
Story
Phantom Flyers: Aerial Victory over North Vietnam
Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton, Ohio
Story
Who Were the Wright Brothers?
Logomark depicting a craft in flight silhouetted against a half-circle
Story
Space for Everyone: Our New Brand Identity
Astronaut standing on crocheted Moon holding Pride flag, with text next to it that says QueerSpace
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QueerSpace: Fight For Your Right

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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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