Air and Space Museum

All of the aircraft and spacecraft on display in the Air & Space Museum were actually flown or were used as backup vehicles. The 23 exhibits in the museum house artifacts including airplanes & spacecraft, missiles & rockets, engines, propellers, models, uniforms, instruments, and flight equipment.

Interesting Facts:

An average of almost nine million people visit this museum each year.
The Air & Space Museum maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world.

Don't Miss :

Wright Brothers’ original 1903 Flyer
Apollo Lunar module
Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis
Aircraft from World Wars I and II, and Vietnam
The moon rock

Links:

Air & Space Museum website

Timeline

1946	1976	2000
The National Air Museum is created as a bureau of the Smithsonian.	The National Air Museum changes its name to the National Air & Space museum and opens to the public.	Ground is broken on the construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, which will showcase approximately 200 aircraft and 100 major space artifacts.