Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform 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 space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s 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, thrilling, and people just flocked in to the museum to see it. In the 40 years since this building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over a thousand of them on display in our two locations
The Smithsonian National air and space museum shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mar mars. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the Smithsonian National air and space museum located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. Our tour guide is valerie neal, head of the Space History Department at the museum who shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mars. Im valerie neal. Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum and this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform 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 spaceflight and it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during thi
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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