Description

The NASM s 60,000 objects comprise the world s largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft. The content is culled from the museum s two public display facilities, one on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and the second at the museum s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

Among the 100 artifacts profiled are the original 1903 Wright Flyer; Charles Lindbergh s Spirit of St. Louis; Chuck Yeager s Bell X-1; John Glenn s Friendship 7 spacecraft; the Apollo 11 command module; Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird; the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay; the Dash 80 prototype for the 707; the sole-surviving Boeing 307 Stratoliner; and space shuttle Discovery.