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Website. https://airandspace.si.edu. The National Air and Space Museum ( NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States dedicated to human flight and space exploration . Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, its main building opened on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976.
Smithsonian Institution. Ad Astra is a public artwork by American artist Richard Lippold. The abstract sculpture is located outside on the Jefferson Drive entrance of and in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] The sculpture's title is Latin, meaning "To the Stars". [2]
The observatory of the National Air and Space Museum was named for Phoebe Waterman Haas in recognition of a $6 million donation from the Thomas W. Haas Foundation, which established an endowment for the museum's Public Observatory Program. Thomas W. Haas is the son of Dorothy Haas and of F. Otto Haas, who was the son of Phoebe Haas and Otto ...
Allen Airways Flying Museum, El Cajon [35] Aviation Museum of Santa Paula, Santa Paula [36] Blackbird Airpark, Palmdale [37] Boron Aerospace Museum, Boron. CAF Southern California Wing WWII Aviation Museum, Camarillo [38] California Science Center, Los Angeles.
Esquire. Gentleman, Gentlewoman. Ministerialis. Lord of the Manor. v. t. e. Thane ( / ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
Website. naturalhistory .si .edu. The National Museum of Natural History ( NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year.
Bead Museum, closed December 2008, [8] museum website. Black Fashion Museum, founded 1979, moved to Washington in 1994, closed in 2007 and collection donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture [9] [10] Corcoran Gallery of Art, open 1869–2014.
June 17, 1861. The United States capital, Washington, D.C., has been the site of several events in the nation's history of aviation, beginning from the time of the American Civil War, often for the purpose of promoting the adoption of new aeronautical technologies by the government. It has also been home to several governmental and civilian ...