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Bob Hoover Gives an Air Show Performance

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Two disk views of the Moon are placed on top of each other. One disk view shows the Moon at the furthest distance from Earth and is called a micromoon. The other disk view shows the Moon at its closest distance to Earth and is called a supermoon.

Micromoon vs Supermoon

Book cover for a children's book about aliens and humans on the Moon featuring an illustration of an alien and human on a crescent moon.

Book Cover: The Way Back Home

Binoculars : Friendship 7

Binoculars : Friendship 7

Two images side by side of a lion under UV lighting.

Gilmore - UV Photography

Octave Chanute

Octave Chanute

Wing Walker from 2010 Become a Pilot Day

Wing Walker from 2010 Become a Pilot Day

A sculpture with a continuous flow of twists and turns that loop into a symmetrical design is being lifted into place on the street level at the front of a building.

Continuum Sculpture Reinstallation

Tethys

Tethys

Gawain Edward “Ed” Pendray, a man, uses a tracking device to view rocket flight tests.

Gawain Edward “Ed” Pendray

Five objects that resemble jjars with substances inside are photographed under studio like conditions.

Battery Cells Before Treatment

Astronauts Richard Truly and Guy Bluford sleep aboard the STS-8 Challenger mission. Truly sleeps with his head towards the ceiling whereas Bluford is sleeping with his head towards the floor.

Richard "Dick" Truly and Guy Bluford, STS-8

A handwritten letter that takes up almost two whole pages.

Letter from Major General George Stoneman to Thaddeus Lowe

Brown-colored vending machine selling airline flight insurance. Next to the vending machine is a green flight attendant uniform styled on mannequin.

Flight Insurance Vending Machine

Cayley Boy Carrier

Cayley Boy Carrier

Two metal and plastic plates attached to each other by rods at each of the plates four corners, suspending the top plate above the bottom one. The bottom plate is much thicker than the top.

High Resolution Camera 

Visit from Chuck Yeager

Visit from Chuck Yeager

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National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
Washington, DC

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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