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A national treasure, the Smithsonian Institution contains everything from a 3.5 billion year-old fossil to the ruby slippers actress Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz and everything in between. The Smithsonian is also one of the world's leading research centers and a vast public classroom for the study, of art, science, history and heritage.
To visit the National Air and Space Museum is to enter a world of endless possibilities and far-flung frontiers. From the massive entrance with its historic planes hanging from the ceiling to the 23 galleries filled with historic or technologically significant aircraft and rockets, the museum tells the story of mankind's conquest of air and space.
Highlights:
- The Wright Brothers'1903 Flyer
- Amelia Earhart's 1932 transatlantic Lockheed Vega
- Touchable Moon rock-collected by Apollo 17 astronauts from the lunar surface
- World War I and World War II aircraft
- Apollo Lunar Module — Duplicate of the spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon's surface in the late 1960s and early 1970s
- Samuel P. Langley IMAX Theatre
- Albert Einstein Planetarium
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