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
Transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july every to back on display had recently been on the move. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and for most people, their first chance to see what had been lauded in 1960s and 70s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first went off the planet into space and all the way to the main. When the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to export the nearby planets. All of this was exciting and thrilling and people just flocked to 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 have just over 1000 of them on display in our two locations here in the washington area. Then we have another 1500 on display in other museums around the world. In our tour today, we are going to look at some of the original artifacts that were the stars of the show when the
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