#Udvar-Hazy Center

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"The Space Shuttle Enterprise (back) and Mercury Capsule 15B 'Freedom 7-II' (front) is among many spacecraft that is on display at the National Air and Space Musuem, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center where opening ceremonies took place, in Chantilly, Virginia. The museum, featuring over 80 aircraft, some 60 large space artifacts and dozens of aircraft engines and other artifacts displayed in thematic groupings, will be open to the public, December 15, 2003."

Date: December 11, 2003

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Space Stuff

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Space shuttle Discovery, Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

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GRiD laptop used as a Space Shuttle payload and general support computer in 1993.

Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, VA

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Le dernier exemplaire du Boeing 307 Stratoliner, le Flying Clipper Cloud de la Pan American – Centre Steven F. Udvar-Hazy – Virginie – Etats-Unis – 2005

Photographe : David Lednicer

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird by KSBD Photo

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The Grumman A-6E Intruder attack aircraft was used from Vietnam to Bosnia. This particular aircraft flew missions in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm.

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Quite possibly my favorite museum ever.

Udvar Hazy Center in Dulles, VA.

Just outside of Washington, D.C.

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"Space Shuttles Discovery Arrives at Udvar-Hazy

Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Chantilly, Va. Space shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles will take the place of Enterprise at the center to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers at the center."

Photo Credit: (NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Carolyn Russo)

Date: April 19, 2012

NASA ID: 201204190016HQ

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Observation Tower

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I’m in front of the 367-80, at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy center in Chantilly, VA. On July 15, 1954, a graceful, swept-winged aircraft, bedecked in brown and yellow paint and powered by four revolutionary new engines first took to the sky above Seattle. Built by the Boeing Aircraft Company, the 367-80, better known as the Dash 80, would come to revolutionize commercial air transportation when its developed version entered service as the famous Boeing 707, America's first jet airliner.

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

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My Star Trek Christmas Tree is up! Four views as it rotates. Several new ornaments this year. The official Hallmark releases - Apollo's hand gripping the Enterprise, Badgy and Goodgy from Lower Decks, Picard and Scotty from Relics, and Data holding Spot. But I've also got a tardigrade from Archie McPhee that is standing in for Ripper from Discovery, three insignia that I designed and 3D printed to hold old Micro Machine ships, and several other Micro Machines that I've suspended in plastic "make-your-own" ornament balls. One pair that's not new, but that I always like to highlight is the gold-plated TOS Enterprise from Hallmark next to the gold plated Space Shuttle Enterprise from the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center, back when the actual shuttle was displayed there.

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John Glenn's first and second rides into space, 36 years apart.

Mercury MA-6 Friendship 7 - February 20, 1962

STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery - October 29-November 7, 1998

Udvar-Hazy Center - Chantilly, VA