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A pyramid-like sculpture in a water feature stands in front of the National Air and Space Museum.

Delta Solar in Front of the Museum

A view of the Wright Flyer in situ, with images and text on the wall behind it.

The Wright Flyer

A view of the Destination Moon gallery. Neil Armstrong's spacesuit and the command module Columbia are both visable.

Neil Armstrong Spacesuit and Apollo 11 Command Module in Destination Moon

A view of the America by Air gallery. Several large airplanes are suspended from the ceiling with smaller airplanes on the ground.

America by Air

A view of the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery. The overwhelming color of the gallery is purple. There is a model of a solar system hanging from the ceiling, with signage on the walls.

Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery

A bright red airplane hanging upside down in the entrance to an exhibition.

Thomas W. Haas We All Fly

Large spherical Earth interactive in the middle of an exhibition.jim

One World Connected

MA-6 Friendship 7

Mercury Friendship 7

Photo of the Udvar-Hazy Center exterior at dusk

Udvar-Hazy Center Exterior at Dusk

photo of the discovery space shuttle surrounded by artifacts within the Udvar-Hazy museum

McDonnell Space Hangar

photograph of aircraft inside the udvar hazy museum

Boeing Aviation Hangar at Udvar-Hazy Center

Boeing Aviation Hangar

Boeing Aviation Hangar

A black spy plane stands in an all black air hanger, lit from the light from above. The curvy form of the plane--bulging at two engines on either wing and curving up toward the cockpit--give the sense of an almost science fiction aircraft (although it's very real).

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Space Shuttle Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery

Engine and propellers of a steel tube with fabric cover aircraft.

Monocoupe 110 Special "LITTLE BUTCH" Engine

Boeing Aviation Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Boeing Aviation Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Tree lines path with a vertical swooping metal sculpture at the end

Wall of Honor and "Ascent" Sculpture