A selection of well-known and world-renowned air and space artifacts at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Your search found 9 result(s).

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

On June 19, 1944, as United States and Japanese forces engaged one another during the Battle of Saipan in the Mariana Islands, the VF-2 fighter squadron from the USS Hornet flew numerous missions to ...

Join us for a reading of the comic-book style picture book biography, I am Amelia Earhart written by Brad Meltzer and illustrated by Chris Eliopoulis. Discover how Amelia Earhart reached her dream of ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey is the 1974 autobography of Michael Collins (1930--2021). While his early aviation career in the United States Air Force is covered, the vast majority of the ...

This is the main electronics box, built by the Ball Aerospace company, from the High Altitude Observatory Coronagraph, an experiment flown on the Space Shuttle as part of the Solar Maximum Mission, ...

The standard wardrobe for Space Shuttle crews included comfortable t-shirts and shorts for sleepwear. Crewmembers usually slept in individual fabric sleeping bags that could be attached to the cabin ...

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Among the items issued to astronauts are velcro-backed leather name tags that can be attached to flight suits and jackets. This name tag is a spare for astronaut Dr. Sally K. Ride. She flew as a ...

Member of the Fourth Class to enter the U.S. Air Force Academy in June, 1958. The Class of 1962 was named the RTBs due to their antics during a field trip to USAF Operational Command bases during the ...

Each astronaut aboard a spacecraft has a personal hygiene kit with items for cleanliness and grooming during the mission. Contents typically include a comb, hairbrush, toothbrush, toothpaste, dental ...