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    • The National Air and Space Museum holds in trust over 60,000 artifacts and more than 20,000 cubic feet of archival materials. Historic aircraft and space artifacts, such as the 1903 Wright Flyer and the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, highlight the National Collection.

    Thousands of additional artifacts—including engines, rockets, uniforms, spacesuits, balloons, artwork, documents, manuscripts, and photographs—document the richness of the history of flight. A wide variety of these artifacts are on display at the Museum in Washington, DC and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.

     

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    • The National Air and Space Museum holds in trust over 60,000 artifacts and more than 20,000 cubic feet of archival materials. Historic aircraft and space artifacts, such as the 1903 Wright Flyer and the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, highlight the National Collection.

    Thousands of additional artifacts—including engines, rockets, uniforms, spacesuits, balloons, artwork, documents, manuscripts, and photographs—document the richness of the history of flight. A wide variety of these artifacts are on display at the Museum in Washington, DC and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.

     

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    919 result(s) Mr. McGuire. On the 12th of May 1785 ascended in a balloon from Dublin and was driven out to sea where he was picked up by a vessel almost perished and spent with swimming. Object Clowns with Balloon Object I. Premier Voyage Aerien Execute Dans Une Montgolfiére, Par Pilâtre de Rozier et D'Arlands, la 21 Nov. 1783; II. A La Marguerite 51, Faub. Monmarte; III. Descente de Jacques Garnerin en Parachute (1797) Object The Chinese Pagoda and Bridge, erected over the Canal in St. James's Park, for the Grand Jubilee of the 1st of August 1814. Object He steers His Flight Aloft Object Aerostation. 1 Montgolfier's Balloon. 2. Blanchard's. 3. Charles & Robert's. 4. Lunardi's. 5. Baldwin's View over the City of Chester, from Lunardi's Balloon. Object Mirage and Luminous Aureola. Object Balloon. Sadler's Balloon at Dublin, October 1st, 1812. Object Moyens Facille et Efficace pour Diriger les Globes Aerostatiques. Executeé en petit par françois, Joseph, Plancq, Demeurant à Lille de 3 7bre 1785... Object Aerostation out at Elbows or the Itinerant Aeronaut. Object Kite Festival Object et se Protinùs æthereà tollit inastra via. Vincent Lunardi Esqr. Secretary to the Neapolitan Ambassador, and the first aerial Traveller in the English Atmosphere. Object
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