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**Fhgzmftq** · 08-29-2012, 02:52 PM

I'm really kicking myself in the teeth. [Hmmm, is that applause I hear? :-)]
On my recent 6 weeks world jaunt, I failed to put this great Museum in my Itinerary...Damn!!!!

Where else in the world would you find something as significant and as awesome as this place......
Columbia, the Apollo 11 capsule in which Armstrong and fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins made their historic voyage in July 1969, enjoys pride of place in the foyer of the museum in Washington.

It rubs shoulders with Friendship 7, in which John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and Gemini IV, from which Edward White conducted the first American space walk in June 1965.

Inside a small pedestal is a smooth black chunk of moon rock that you can touch. From the rafters hangs the Spirit of Saint Louis, in which Charles Lindbergh made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic in May 1927.

from...
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-apollo-...-memories.html
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It also exhibits a section on "Time and Navigation" and the history of how we navigate at sea, in the air and in space

Has anyone else visited this Museum?

What did you think?

08-29-2012, 02:52 PM	#1
Fhgzmftq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 352 Senior Member	Smithsonian Institute and National Air and Space Museum I'm really kicking myself in the teeth. [Hmmm, is that applause I hear? :-)] On my recent 6 weeks world jaunt, I failed to put this great Museum in my Itinerary...Damn!!!! Where else in the world would you find something as significant and as awesome as this place...... Columbia, the Apollo 11 capsule in which Armstrong and fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins made their historic voyage in July 1969, enjoys pride of place in the foyer of the museum in Washington. It rubs shoulders with Friendship 7, in which John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and Gemini IV, from which Edward White conducted the first American space walk in June 1965. Inside a small pedestal is a smooth black chunk of moon rock that you can touch. From the rafters hangs the Spirit of Saint Louis, in which Charles Lindbergh made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic in May 1927. from... http://phys.org/news/2012-08-apollo-...-memories.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It also exhibits a section on "Time and Navigation" and the history of how we navigate at sea, in the air and in space Has anyone else visited this Museum? What did you think?
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