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Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher

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Rolls-Royce Avon Mk 28-49 Turbojet Engine

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. In ...
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Wright brothers propeller, fixed-pitch, 1903 Wright Flyer

The Wright brothers designed and constructed the world's first practical fixed-pitch propeller and developed the aerodynamic theory to calculate its performance during the process of creating their ...
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Communications Satellite, Mechanical Test Model, MicroSat

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Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-1830-92 Radial Engine

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Glove, Space Shuttle EMU Space Suit (right)

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Plans for the Little Known Confederate Helicopter

Browse our collections, stories, research, and on demand content. Side View drawing showing the longitudinal and vertical Archimedean screws and central location of smoke stacks for William C. Powers' ...
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Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service: The WAVES Program in World War II

Imagine a photo taken before the 1970s. You’re probably thinking of a black and white image, because color was not in common use before then. Specialist (X) second class Marcelle Whiteman gently holds ...
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SpaceX Dragon Launch and Entry Suits

When you watch astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley make their way out to the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission, you will notice that ...
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Spinning Out of Control: Gemini VIII’s Near-Disaster

Gemini VIII lifts off atop a Titan II rocket with command pilot Neil Armstrong and pilot David Scott aboard. Fifty-five years ago, on March 16, 1966, the Gemini VIII astronauts made the world’s first ...
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IMAX—Not the First, but Close!

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Restoring the Museum’s V-2 Missile

One of the icons of the National Air and Space Museum’s location on the National Mall, before we began our massive renovation project, was the black-and-white German V-2 ballistic missile. Ever since ...