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Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

GPS Block III Satellite

GPS Block III Satellite

Russian Rocket Society

Russian Rocket Society

Sheets of black-colored material attached to double-sided tape are applied as part of restoring the Apollo Telescope Mount. Here, the black-covered material is placed as part of the cover of the spar.

Apollo Telescope Mount Kapton Repairs

Milton Wright

Milton Wright

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, An Autobiography

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, An Autobiography

A weathered letter addressed to Aunt Ellen and Jim written by George Schnitzer, Jr.

Letter from George Schnitzer, Jr. to James and Ellen Meliff

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A model of the saucer shaped starship Enterprise made of a silver-tone metal (steel) in a lucite block with a partial beaded chain imbedded in the interior toward the top of the block. The rest of the chain is above and outside block, missing.

Model, Starship Enterprise, in clear plastic block, "Star Trek"

LROC at NASA

LROC at NASA

Wright Camp at Kitty Hawk

Wright Camp at Kitty Hawk

Langley Aerodrome First Flight Attempt

Langley Aerodrome First Flight Attempt

A wrecked piece of an airship sits in a fields as swarms of people flock to it.

Crowd of People Around Wreckage of the USS Shenandoah

Three different views of a pit on the Moon that reveals subsurface lava flows.

Lunar Pits

Esnault-Pelterie Wright-type Glider, 1904

Esnault-Pelterie Wright-type Glider, 1904

Two side by side images of an old drill photographed against a grey backdrop.

"Rosie the Riveter" Drill

Copernican Crater

Copernican Crater