Our trip today started at the Capitol Building. The weather had turned hot and we worked up a serious sweat on our walk from the metro. There was a large set up of chairs and a stage possibly for a graduation ceremony. We took a peek at the Capitol Building complex and then turned around to get to the Air and Space museum at our appointed 1:00 time. The line was insanely long and we started walking to the end of the line. As we went further the end of the line kept going out even further still. We never did see the end of the line but a gap opened up and we cut in, sorry to the folks behind us. We got in and wandered at our leisure and we purchased items in the shop. Two hours flew by and before we headed out. There was a science demonstration outside imaging the sun, both in full spectrum light and also with just the Hydrogen lines. We could see sunspots as well as coronal loops on the edge of the sun. Back to the house for lunch and a siesta for a few.
Off we go for another day of adventures
The relatively unknown Weimaraner astronaut, aptly named Apollo
Along the Eisenhower Plaza there was this very large screen
Perhaps it lights up at night
The Capitol Dome
The stage and seating. The extensive renovations can be seen at the top of the image
The Capitol gang
I need to work on my selfie skills with this bigger group
The line in front of us
The line behind us, sorry for cutting
Life sized Leggo astronaut
Air and Space Museum
Busy in the gift shop
All the St. Louis crew will recognize TWA
A non-flying machine
A high flying machine
I the gallery titled "In Search of Speed"
A skunk decal on the winningest plane
The complexity of a jet engines is mind boggling
The same goes for the rocket engines
Comparing the speed of boats, cars and airplanes
Mustache or soot?
Imagine riding this beast
Go Glen go
The hanger in the sky
It is bit hard to see but the sides are quilted aluminum
One more orbit
Come in Houston...
Nostalgia from when I once worked there
I worked with many of the guys who helped build this Gemini capsule
Apollo was an entirely different endeavor. The capsule was huge compared to the Gemini
A fuzzy Earth in the background
The lunar rover
A camera like the one used on the Moon
This interactive earth showed 10 different sets of data from animal migration to satellite orbits
To see the Earth from space like this should be able to unite the folks on earth
A mock up of the ISS windows
The kids with the Wright Brothers
It all started with kites
A fully reclined airplane seat, the first one ever
Sleek jet
Old wooden propellers
Early planes
A steam engine for an good old "steam powered areoplane"
The current engine technology, we have come a long way
A quote in at Eisenhower memorial
A device that projected an image of the sun
Sunspots viewed at the demonstration outside the Air and Space
An intersection of two different metro lines
