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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.

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Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

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Women in Aviation and Space Family Day

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Apollo 11: Astronaut Edwin Aldrin Descends Steps of Lunar Module
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Apollo 11: The Moon Landing

Rocket on launch pad
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The Apollo Missions

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Star Trek

Astronaut Eugene Cernan dines aboard the Apollo 17 command module.
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Apollo Astronaut Life

Patent for Robert Goddard's Impoved Rocket Design
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Innovative People in Early Rocketry

Inverted Space Shuttle Discovery orbits Earth
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Space Shuttle Discovery

Vanguard 1 Satellite Model
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Communications Satellites

The Earth, brilliant blue with swirling white clouds, partly obscured by shadow, stands against a stark sky in this iconic photograph.
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Observing our Planet

Sally Ride floats in the cramped interior of the space shuttle, during the 1983 mission where she became the first American woman in space.
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Sally Ride

Silver-coated, full-body flight suit with various spots for tubes to be placed.
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Spacesuits

A jet aircraft emerging from a cone shaped cloud of vapor in the air.
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Speed

Alan Shepard, in his shiny Mercury spacesuit, smiles at the camera.
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Alan Shepard: First American in Space

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Apollo 1

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Apollo 10

A conical brown command module seemingly floats in front of a photograph of the moon's surface and the sun behind it.
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Apollo 11 Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft

Apollo 11 Spacesuits
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Apollo 11 Timeline

Apollo 12
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Apollo 12

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Apollo 13

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National Air and Space Museum

6th St. and Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20560

202-633-2214

Open daily
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Free Timed-Entry Passes
Required

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

Open daily
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
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