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Scan of a book cover with a blue-colored photo of a female astronaut candidate standing beside a Mercury spacecraft.

Book Cover: Right Stuff, Wrong Sex

Interior of an early commercial aircraft. People sit in seats that have two rows of one seat apiece. The people in the front seem to have received some form of food service.

Ford Tri-Motor Interior

National Air Races Official Program

National Air Races Official Program

The Mercury capsule with its escape rocket still attached.

The Mercury capsule with its escape rocket still attached.

Comet Wild 2 Imaged by Stardust Mission

Comet Wild 2 Imaged by Stardust Mission

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt sits in a plane seat as the first U.S. president to fly in a plane.

First President to Fly on a Plane

The Route of the First Transcontinental Flight

The Route of the First Transcontinental Flight

Thaddeus Lowe

Thaddeus Lowe

Udvar-Hazy Center Solid Steel Thrust Block Structures

Udvar-Hazy Center Solid Steel Thrust Block Structures

Raytheon Radar Antenna

Raytheon Radar Antenna

Pouring Concrete for Udvar-Hazy Center Thrust Blocks

Pouring Concrete for Udvar-Hazy Center Thrust Blocks

Airline Flight Insurance Machine

Airline Flight Insurance Machine

Book cover: Milestones of Space

Book cover: Milestones of Space

Civil War Balloon

Civil War Balloon

More beams for the Udvar-Hazy Center theater

More beams for the Udvar-Hazy Center theater

Side view of commercial jet inside a commercial jet factory. The plane is being towed by its front wheel.

Boeing 707

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National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
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202-633-2214

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

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