We popped up early to make it to our 10:30 time slot, The Air and Space Museum is free but visitors must have time slotted entry tickets. Laura was feeling poorly so it was just the four of us. We took the metro downtown and made it to the museum right on time. This place really is a national treasure. We saw rockets, space suits, the first airplanes, the most advanced airplanes and so much more. To the ire of the current administration there were placards and banners celebrating the contributions of minorities and women. Bravo to the museum staff for taking a chance and telling the whole story not the whitewashed version.
Ready for a hot day in DC
Across the street was a less than optimum house
An old school on across the other street
Ready to head out
A study of hairstyles at the Metro station
Steep escalators
The Air and Space Museum
Flowery
Lots of folks with the same time slot
Bunching up at the entry
Lots of space for that
Stubby little rocket plane
SpaceShipOne was an air launched rocket plane that could reach sub-orbital altitudes
The propellers on a early 1933 wind tunnel. The blades spanned 97 feet, the winds generated varied from 25 to 120 mph
Moon lander mock up
Pewww, peeww Star Wars
An entire gallery devoted to the moon coinciding with the Artemis II mission
Before humans went into space, animals were sent up
The capsule where the dog sat when the Soviets sent them into space
Pick me! Woof
An Apollo capsule
JFK
Before they became McDonnell Douglas
A problem so serious that Tom Hanks himself played on of the astronauts in a movie
Why did they not skip to 14 like the elevator companies do?
The Saturn 5 rockets blasted fire out of these huge things
Newer space suits
The moon rover
An explanation of the space toilet
Evan we've had a problem,
The SR71 Blackbird the fastest air breathing aircraft. It could fly to 80,000 feet and fly from NY to London in less than 2 hours
Old crop duster
Warning: contents contain no actual moon dust or cheese
WW1 flight suits
A back propeller circa 1917-1917
From the voyager spacecraft
Another gallery housed all sorts of data on the planets
Triton is the largest moon orbiting Neptune and is the only moon that orbits it's planet in a counter-clockwise manner. All other moons orbit clockwise
Jupiter
Mars rover
Motorcycles were the fastest 136 mph in 1907 while airplanes could only manage 47 mph in 1909. the Curtis engines were later used for airplanes
Wild indeed, an early air mail pilot
The Liliental gliders that flew in the 1800's were very important to pushing early aviation forward
So many early planes
All sorts of propellers
The French did their part in making cool posters
Space Bears
The downstairs gift shop
One of only a few Wright Brothers bicycles in existence
Orville flying some experimental kites
Was Evan there in the past?
Wilbur laying down on the flyer
The first US woman in space
Amelia Earhart
First licensed black woman pilot
Yes this is the mathematician from Hidden Figures
We walked along the mall on the way out
It has been 3 years and 311 days since we began our Migration
