National Air & Space Museum
Monday, June 16th, 2008 
After all the HOT weather…we saved all the indoor adventures for the ends of our day…Air Conditioning 
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world.
Another surprise adventure I wasn’t expecting. The collection includes more than 30,000 aviation-related and more than 9,000 space related artifacts.
A large part of this collection is shown at the National Air and Space Museum at the Mall in Washington, D.C. Some of the most notable include the Wright 1903 Flyer, the first engine-powered air.. plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane used by Charles Lindbergh on the first transatlantic flight in 1927.
Plus we saw the Apollo 11 Command Module which carried the astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin on their mission to the moon in 1969…
The museum is divided into 23 thematic exhibition galleries with names such as ‘Milestones of Flight’, ‘Pioneers of Flight’, ‘Aviation in WWII’ and ‘Space Race’.
The National Air and Space Museum is located at Independence Avenue on the National Mall. For more info check out the museum’s website.
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