This gallery explored two key technologies that have made spaceflight possible: rockets and spacesuits. But it also paid tribute to the dreamers, writers, and visionaries whose ideas inspired many of the pioneers who would help realize humanity’s dream of spaceflight.
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The Air Transportation gallery was renovated and replaced with the America by Air exhibition in 2007.
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At the Controls gave visitors an opportunity to view the cockpits of a number of the aircraft and spacecraft in the National Air and Space Museum collections. Many of these historically significant craft are one of a kind, others are well known, even by non-aviation buffs, for significant events in mankind’s travel through air and space history.
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Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age National Air and Space Museum in Washington
Artist Michael Benson manipulates extraordinary images of the Solar System from NASA and other planetary databases in order to present what our eyes might see if we could visit these spectacular places ourselves.
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Moving Beyond Earth traced the recent history of human spaceflight and explores future possibilities.
their space smarts and become “flight ready.� National Air and Space Museum in Washington
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This display area contained the Apollo Lunar Module, Lunar Orbiter, Surveyor, Ranger, and Clementine spacecraft.
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