From the friendship 7 of John Glenn to the new Blue Origin Shepard, the space capsules and more will return to Orrefbre on exhibition with the opening of five “reinvented” galleries in the National Museum of Air and Space this summer.
As part of a seven -year renewal of the museum emblematic building in Washington, Smithsonian has announced that it is ready to premiere more of its exhibitions after the revelation of eight or buildings in buildings in the building ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, a. Latinged, latinged latingedededed. It includes two galleries that highlight some of the most historical and newest space artifacts in the national collection.
Flight Hall’s Boeing milestos, which visitors will see for the first time after continuing through the entrance of Jefferson Drive recently redesigned from the museum throughout the National Shopping Center exhibit some of the most iconic objects of the museum, including the Mercury Spacecraft of Glenn and a lunar module of Apollo configured to appear as the “Eagle” of Apollo 11 The first human on the moon moon landed.
The exhibitions in the milestones were the first to be redesigned in 2016, in time for the 40th anniversary of the museum, but then the living room closed and the artifacts were eliminated again so that the ITFF area could be renewed.
Milestone exhibitions also include an X-15 rocket plane from North America, the Gemini 4 capsule of which astronaut Ed White made the first American space walk in 1965 and a moon rock that the public can play.
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The new exhibition “Futures in Space” will also open on July 28, which takes over the location of the relocation of “how things fly”, next to the milestones of the flight room. “Futures” will show new artifacts in the building to address issues such as “Who decides who goes to space?” And “why are we going?”
Debuting with futures in space are a virgin galactic engine “Rocket Mototwo” that drove the pilots Mark Stucky and Frederick “CJ” Sturckow in space on a suborbital test flight on board the Spaceshiptwo “vsals spa splets spa splets spects spetex” in 2018 in 2018 in 2018 and an aluminum “in the first” in the first “in the first Interval in 2017 in 2017.
A model of the new SHEPARD Blue Origin capsule, a pressurized cabin used to fly loading and customers beyond the limit that separates the earth and space is also new. Jeff Bezos, the company’s billionaire founder and his first pin, has pledged to replace the replica with a flops flew once he has retired from flying.
Other areas of the reopening of the National Air and Space Museum at the same time include three aviation theme rooms: “Barron Hilton Pioners of Flight”, “World War: the birth of military aviation” and the Gallery of Innovations Allan Holt.
The eight removal galleries that are still renewed are scheduled to open on July 1, 2026, the 50th anniversary of the National Air Museum and the space and time for the 250th anniversary of the United States. Among them are the interactive “at home in space”, which will involve visitors on how humans live and work in space and venture beyond the orbit of the earth, and “RTX that lives in the Space Age Hall”, revaluing how innovations in space technology on earth.
Similarly, the exhibition “National Foundation of Sciences that discover our Universe” will show how advances in astronomical tools changed our understanding of the universe.
They are also opened next year, ending renewals, there are the “Textron how things fly”, “Jay I. Kislak World War II in the air” and the galleries of “Modern Military Aviation”, as well as the “Flight and Arts Center”.
Free synchronized entry passes are required to visit. The passes for the opening and beyond July 28 will be sheets on the website of the National Air and Space Museum on June 13.
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