Exploration from the moon to mars. Valerie neal i am valerie neal. We are in the milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. This is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transformed the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary death spaceflight and it was, for most people, it was their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and 70s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting and thrilling, and people just flocked into the museum to see it. In the 40 years since the building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We hav
Earlier, only a small percentage is here. You have more in storage than youre able to show. We just have a certain percentage here. But its quite a few of the artifacts are on loan or in storage. Jeremy kinney, thank you very much for you time. Thank you. Happy 40th birthday. Thank you very much. Its more than aviation, its also Space Exploration from moon to mars as we continue our tour inside this museum. Well start our tour right here with the lunar module. The icon for the landing on the moon in july 1969. It actually has a companion spacecraft, the apollo command module. And the command module and the Service Module and the lunar module together carried three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and Michael Colin to the moon. The command module also brought them back safely. This lunar module is an actual lunar module that never flew in space. Lunar module 2. It was intended to be used in a test flight but the test was canceled as unnecessary. So nasa transferred this lunar mod
The International Airport during the terror attack. Firmof a sudden there, you see people running, and then moments to pe there is that explosion. Nbc news has not been able to independently confirm the video, but it is very similar to others that weve seen. Tts go straight out to peggy bunker who joins us live from sfo and passengers who landed a short time ago. At 5 00, you were there for a flight about ready to depart minutes from now. Is that still happening . Reporter it is. In just about 10 minutes a Turkish Airways flight is set to depart. Some who were on that plane received different messages, some say the flight was canceled, others saying it was grounding. They called the airline and said, yes, the flight is due to depart. We just checked a moment ago, and in 10 minutes the flight is set to take off, not even a delay. We looked at passengers who came in on the flight from istanbul and landed at sfo at 4 20 this afternoon. It took such a long time to talk to any of those p
Cowling, what i mean is that theres a tight figtting metal covering and allows the air to flow over more efficiently. So, mark burket of the spanish Swiss Company has designed a very important series of automobile engines in the prewar era. He adapts this to the aeronautical application by taking two of his inline four engines, makes it into a v8, and what he does thats very unique is instead of having separate cylinders attached to the crank case, he casts a row of cylinders out of a solid piece of aluminum. And he has cooling packagssages those aluminum blocks that allows improved cooling and more power. So instead of a rotary engine, you know, doing 110, 120 horsepower, youre looking at 200 or 220 horsepower with these engines by the time theyre introduced in the spad xii. Theres always a technological pushpull over the western front in world war i, in which the germans have an advantage with their thick air foiled tubular steel fuselaged aircraft like the folker d 7 that you can se
Prizewinning flight, but it was the recordbreaking flight. And so they went to the trouble to reinstall the dented engine nozzle on it. Our next stop will be sky lab, and were going to look at that because it is one of the original artifacts on display here since before this Museum Opened. Sky lab is so large, it was brought into the museum before the building was closed out. Now im standing in front of a model of sky lab thats as tall as i am but the real sky lab orbital work station behind me absolutely dwarfs the model and me. It reaches from the floor up into the sky lights of this building, two stories tall. Sky lab was the United States first space station, placed in orbit in 1973 and in 1973 and 74, three different nasa astronaut crews spent time aboard it. Three men at a time, one group was there for one month. Another group for two months, and the third group for three months. The whole point of the sky lab missions was to get some experience in living and working in space. Wh