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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum maintains the largest collection of historic air & space objects in the world. (ToU: )

Washington, DC
airandspace.si.edu
Joined May 2008
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  1. 7 minutes ago

    TDIH 1974: Museum's made a world speed record flight London to Los Angeles in 3hrs 47min 39sec:

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  2. 14 hours ago

    TDIH 1992: STS-47 crew incl 1st Japanese astronaut on shuttle (M. Mohri) & 1st married couple (J. Davis & M. Lee)

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  3. 17 hours ago

    In 1961, Kennedy presented goal of landing on the Moon in speech before joint session of Congress:

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  4. 18 hours ago

    “We choose to go to the Moon...” TDIH 1962: President John F. Kennedy gave speech at Rice University:

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  5. 19 hours ago

    10 Years Ago Today: astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, STS-115 mission specialist, waved to the camera during EVA.

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  6. 20 hours ago

    On , drive a rover and search for water in the hilly terrain:

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  7. 21 hours ago

    TDIH 1992: Mae Jemison was 1st African American woman in space on space shuttle Endeavour STS-47. From blog archive:

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  8. Sep 11

    2001, 9:45am: FAA closed US airspace for 1st time. In hrs, all commercial air traffic grounded:

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  9. Sep 11

    hijacked flights: American Airlines 11, United Airlines 175, American Airlines 77, United Airlines 93

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  10. Sep 11

    2001: terrorists hijacked 4 airliners, flew 2 into World Trade Center & 1 into Pentagon. 4th crashed in rural PA at 10:03 am.

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  11. Sep 11

    Today, we remember those lost on

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  12. Sep 10

    and giving some inspirational talks at "go boldly and fix this world"

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  13. Sep 10

    Chatting with Bjo Trimble last night in

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  14. Sep 10

    Why aren't lights in Enterprise studio model on all the time? Would generate too much heat

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  15. Sep 10

    Last night of our celebration has begun! Share you photos using . Spons. by

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  16. Sep 10

    from our collection with LM-2 in the background 💙🌱🌠

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  17. Sep 10

    Gardens and space = wonder! About to kick off 🌸🌌

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  18. Sep 9

    At for Boldly Go 50 Celebration w/

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  19. Sep 9

    The winner of the costume contest gets his prize from

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  20. Sep 9

    The unofficial junior division of the costume contest.

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