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A yellowed piece of paper with a short note scrawled on it.

Abraham Lincoln's Note to Gen. Scott

Side view of an black aircraft wing, with white and gray patterns painted near the top of the visible wing.

Heinkel He 219 Wing

X-ray scan of the arm unit of an experimental early spacesuit. Flexibility can be seen in the elbow, shoulder, and wrist regions.

Arm Unit of the RX-1 Suit

Udvar-Hazy Center - Yet to Come

Udvar-Hazy Center - Yet to Come

Fokker T-2 flown by a cat and monkey

Pilot Pals Story Time: Flying Across the Country

A figure showing how consolidant barriers work by using two different sets of four rectangular figures. The barriers work on the right set but not on the left set, revealing more pink where consolidant has leaked. A written section describes this effect in further detail.

Consolidant Barriers Figure

Satellite view of alluvial fans on Mars, which are areas of sediment which are deposited away from geographic features such as rivers.

River Deposits on Mars

Autogiro Company of America AC-35 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Autogiro Company of America AC-35 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

A square belly panel on a gray metal aircraft. The panel has been cleaned.

Belly Panel on Horten Ho 229 V3 After Cleaning

Freedom 7 Radio Beacon

Freedom 7 Radio Beacon

Kites of Asia Family Day

Kites of Asia Family Day

These aircraft patrolled hundreds of miles offshore looking for Axis submarines.

U.S. Navy Consolidate PBY Catalina

Screenshot showing an graphed analysis of green paint sampled from a World War II era aircraft. The red spikes in the graph show various materials that are detected in the paint sample.

XRF of Green Paint Sampled from Horten Ho 229 V3

Apollo Command Module Main Display

Apollo Command Module Main Display

Lunar Hammer

Lunar Hammer

Aldrin’s Inflight Coverall Boot

Aldrin’s Inflight Coverall Boot