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Explore the world's premier collection of air and space artifacts, stories, and expertise at two locations: Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA. Learn about exhibitions, events, programs, and how to support the museum.
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About. 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.
Explore the world's largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft at the National Air and Space Museum. Visit the flagship building on the National Mall or the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to see icons of flight and space.
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.
Notable museum collections include the 1903 Wright Flyer, the Spirit of St. Louis, the Winnie Mae, Apollo 11 command module Columbia, and a lunar rock. During the 1980s, the museum began to focus more directly on its research component.
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