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Smithsonian Planetary Image Facility

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Echo 1 Communications Satellite

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1899 Wright Kite (Reproduction)

The Wrights combined their wing-warping control concept and the structural design of the Chanute-Herring glider in their first aircraft, a biplane kite with a 5-foot wingspan, built in July 1899. To ...
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Pratt & Whitney T34-P-7WA Turboprop Engine

The 3,057 kw (4,100 ehp) XT34-P-2 was developed originally as a dependable simple-cycle turboprop engine for use in high performance, long-range aircraft, and possibly later as a free turbine engine.
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WAC Corporal Sounding Rocket

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Robert J. Collier Trophy

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Pin, Lapel, Honorable Discharge, United States Army Air Forces

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Fly Now! The National Air and Space Museum Poster Collection

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1960 New York Mid-Air Collision Air Traffic Control Testimony Collection

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. On 16 ...
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Ivan Ivanovich and the Persistent Lost Cosmonaut Conspiracy

On March 25 1961, in the countryside not far from Perm, an ancient city in the heart of Soviet Russia, an ejector seat parachuted from a space capsule. A recovery crew, aided by local villagers, ...
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Apollo Guidance Computer and the First Silicon Chips

As the Apollo program took form in the early 1960s, NASA engineers always kept the safety of their astronauts at the fore in light of the enormous risks they knew were inherent in the goal of landing ...