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Women in Aviation and Space Family Day

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Bob Hoover Gives an Air Show Performance

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Mercury Space Food Beef and Vegetables Tube

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    This spacefood package contains pureed beef with vegetables and was issued to John Glenn for consumption during his Friendship 7 flight in February 1962.
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Space Food, Beef and Vegetables, Mercury, Friendship 7

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Open daily 10:00 am – 5:30 pm

National Air and Space Museum

6th Street and Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC

202-633-2214

Free Timed-Entry Passes Required

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

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