National Air And Space Museum Outside

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National air and space museum outside. In 2018 the museum saw approximately 6 2 million visitors making it the fifth most visited museum in the world and the second most visited museum in the united states. It s still worth a visit you ll learn a lot. It was established in 1946 as the national air museum and opened its main building on the national mall near l enfant plaza in 1976. National air and space museum the national air and space museum at dulles houses a variety of aircraft and spacecraft exhibits.
The museum is a part of the smithsonian institution and serves as a satellite location in northern virginia preserving and displaying artifacts that can not be exhibited in the washington dc national mall location. There are interactive things for the kids to do. I highly recommend it if you have any interest in air or space travel or if you have kids. There s nothing in this world like the air and space museum except perhaps cape canaveral itself.
The museum contains the apollo 11 command module columbia t. It s the new home of the shuttle discovery. 14390 air and space museum parkway chantilly va 20151 703 572 4118. Since the first space walks of aleksei leonov and edward white in 1965 more than 200 astronauts and cosmonauts have amassed over 1 000 hours of eva experience.
It is a great museum but you have to drive outside dc to get there. The national air and space museum in chantilly is the one we visited.