Did you know that the National Air and Space Museum has a Mothership model from Close Encounters of the Third Kind on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center? Join curator of the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Spaceflight Collection Margaret Weitekamp as she highlights this prominent movie filming miniature and discusses the art of building physical models for television and movie filming.

Meet at the nose of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in the Boeing Aviation Hangar.

About the Ask an Expert Series: On the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 12:30 pm at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Museum staff member talks to the public about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the Museum. For topics of upcoming Ask and Expert talks at the Udvar-Hazy Center, click here.

 The mother ship model used for the 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is among the more unusual artifacts found at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. How to attend