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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.

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Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

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Women in Aviation and Space Family Day

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Tuskegee Airmen

Apollo 11: Astronaut Edwin Aldrin Descends Steps of Lunar Module
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Apollo 11: The Moon Landing

Star Trek Enterprise
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Science Fiction

Orville and Wilbur Wright
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The Wright Brothers

A woman stands on the wing of an airplane.
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Bessie Coleman

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The Apollo Missions

Luscombe Silvaire, Aeronca 65 Chief, and Piper Cub
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What is General Aviation?

Front of Star Trek Starship Enterprise Studio Model with lights
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Star Trek

The dark blue P-51D Man O War plane races through the sky alongside Pretty Polly, a P-63C plane with a grey fuselage and blue-striped wings.
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Air Racing

Specialists third class Nora Scott and Virginia Chenoweth
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Air Traffic Control

Astronaut Eugene Cernan dines aboard the Apollo 17 command module.
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Apollo Astronaut Life

Image of the Museum's entry gallery from the second floor. A rainbow can be seen outside.
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Happy Holidays, Air and Space Style

Patent for Robert Goddard's Impoved Rocket Design
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Innovative People in Early Rocketry

Inverted Space Shuttle Discovery orbits Earth
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Space Shuttle Discovery

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World War I

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Afrofuturism

Air Mail Envelope
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Air Mail

Amelia Earhart sits inside the cockpit of an aircraft. She is wearing an aviator hat and goggles.
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Amelia Earhart

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National Air and Space Museum

6th St. and Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20560

202-633-2214

Open daily
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Free Timed-Entry Passes
Required

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

Open daily
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
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