Sunday, June 22, 2008

Washington D.C. Vacation 12 June 08-National Air and Space Museum

Apollo spacecraft




Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
In July 1975 two manned spacecraft were launched into Earth orbit--one from Kazakstan, the other from Florida. Their rendezvous in orbit fulfilled a 1972 agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States to participate in a joint venture in space.


Lunar lander




Interior of an Apollo vehicle



Wright Brothers plane




Early glider





Wright Brothers plane






Early aircraft



Amelia Earhardt's aircraft




Spirit of St. Louis

Spirit of St. Louis




This is the airplane that Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew nonstop, unrefueled around the world in December 1986



747 cockpit

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