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The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum maintains the world's largest and most significant collection of aviation and space artifacts, encompassing all aspects of human flight. It operates two landmark facilities that, together, welcome more than eight million visitors a year.
Launch into the history of flight by surrounding yourself with icons of air and space travel. The flagship building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C, exhibits aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and other flight-related artifacts.
Visit the museum on the National Mall, featuring eight new galleries. View thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including the Space Shuttle Discovery and a Concorde, in two large hangars. Learn in new ways while making memories on a unique field trip to one of our two locations.
Explore how we took flight, how we fly today, how one gets to the Moon, how air and space connect us all, and much more in our eight new galleries. Events From lectures to hands-on family days and more, discover all the events the National Air and Space Museum has to offer.
The flagship building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., houses many of the icons of flight, including the original 1903 Wright Flyer, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 spacecraft, and a lunar rock sample that visitors can touch.
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.
Website. https://airandspace.si.edu. The National Air and Space Museum ( NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration . Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, its main building opened on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976.
