military assistance, despite requests from the haitian government. meanwhile, in florida the miami-dade courthouse is now closed due to safety concerns that were revealed during a building inspection that was prompted by the tragic surfside condo collapse. the engineering firm that examined the 28-story court building says that during the review it found structural distress in support beams and joists, including steel columns that are in, quote, poor condition, and concrete columns that have numerous cracks in them. the courthouse will begin to undergo repairs immediately. employees will return to working from home while that happens. from the miami-dade courthouse to the nation s highways and bridges, it is apparent that infrastructure in this country is in need of major repair and it does appear that congress is taking notice of these glaring warning signs and is poised to take action. senate majority leader chuck schumer says his chamber will work into its august recess
website, c-span.org/history. 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. valerie: i am valerie neal. we are in the boeing 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 spaceflight and it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960 s and 70 s during this heroic age of space exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into
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 stories of space exploration from the moon to mars. valerie: i am valerie neal. we are in the boeing 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 spaceflight and it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960 s and 70 s 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. a
we re 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 tw
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. i m valerie neal. we re in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. this is the hall where we display the 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 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 the united states and soviet union began spending craft out to explore the nearby planets, all the of this was exciting, thrilling and people just flocked into the museum to see it. in the 40 years since