Smithsonian Museums
To the Holy of Holies and beyond...
Milestones of Flight gallery at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM).
On the left, Charles Lindburgh's Spirit of St. Louis; to its right is the privately-
funded SpaceShipOne suborbital spacecraft, and above that is Chuck Yeager's X-1.
On the left, I appear to be under surveillance. On the right,
a 1/34th scale Saturn V and its Launch Umbilical Tower.
Lunar Excursion Module. I think this would have been the lander for the cancelled Apollo 18 mission.
Are you a turtle?
The West Gallery was filled with several Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The one on the right is a Hellfire-armed Predator, as big as a Cessna.
A Corona spy satellite from the '70s. The pink ribbon leading
from the nose to the rear section is photographic film.
Missiles in the Missile Gallery.
Milestones of Flight Gallery, the entryway to NASM.
Waterfall as part of the architecture of the new National Museum of the American Indian.
Curves and lines of the NMAI.
I took a couple of pictures on my Smartphone, texted them to my sister, then gave her a call. Ah, technology.
National Archives. Nicolas Cage nowhere to be seen.
The new entrance to the National Museum of American History.
The Smithsonian Castle.
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