National Air and Space Museum

Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 spacesuit being moved out of the exhibit case in the "Apollo to the Moon" gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The suit has been on display since the Museum opened in 1976, helping tell the story of humankind’s journey to the Moon’s surface.

Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 spacesuit being moved out of an exhibit case in the "Apollo to the Moon" gallery at the Museum’s Washington, DC building. The suit is on its way to our Emil Buehler Conservation Lab at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia for treatment.

A member of the Museum’s collections team moving birds from the “Golden Age of Flight” exhibition. The birds—on loan from the National Museum of Natural History—were on display with the Northrop Gamma Polar Star aircraft from the explorer Lincoln Ellsworth's 1935 transantarctic flight.

Lisa Young, objects conservator at the Museum, works on Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit in the Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory. Armstrong’s suit will be on display in our upcoming Destination Moon exhibition, set to open in 2022.

As part of Air and Space’s transformation, we’re putting 1,400 new artifacts on display. This gives us the opportunity to examine and treat these objects, big or small, at our Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory.