The museum has a 400-seat wide-screen three-dimensional cinema hall. The screen is 5 stories high and 33 meters wide, showing aerospace science films. There is also a circular space pavilion with a diameter of 21 meters, which performs various celestial phenomena and aerospace scenes. It has been 34 years since humans landed on the moon. National Air and Space Museum

At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, the capital of the United States, visitors watch a model demonstrating the Apollo 11 astronauts' landing on the moon. The 34th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. On this day in 1969, Armstrong and three other American astronauts flew away from the earth in the Apollo 11 spacecraft and landed on the moon four days later. This was the first time humans landed on the moon.

On December 15, the new exhibition center of the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia, officially opened to the public to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ successful test flight of the world’s first powered airplane. The exhibition center displays 82 aircraft from various historical periods and more than 60 pieces of space equipment, including the "Concorde" presented by Air France and the US "Enterprise" space shuttle.

Man's first lunar landing vehicle - Apollo 11 lunar landing command module Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia

The Apollo lunar landing project is divided into three aircraft, 1. Apollo 11 Columbia (return module)

⒉Service module aircraft

⒊Landing module

In July 1969, after completing the first lunar landing mission in human history , July 16, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins boarded the Apollo 11 Columbia; began their 8-day space journey back to Earth. Returned to the Earth's atmosphere on July 24, 1969 The speed was as high as 40,000 kilometers per hour, and the outer shell temperature was as high as 2,760 degrees Celsius. Finally, it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, and the US Navy USSHORNET (Hornet) picked up all the astronauts.

Spirit of St. Louis

On May 21, 1927, pilot Charles Lindbergh piloted the Spirit of St. Louis for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in human history. He took off from Long Island, New York, and flew 5,810 kilometers. In 33 hours and 30 minutes, he flew to Paris, France. Lin Bai received a bonus of $25,000.

Full-size model of the Mars probe "Rover"

As an introduction to the knowledge of space exploration, there is a large picture in an exhibition room on the second floor, showing the nine planets in the universe. See if visitors can correctly identify the schematic arrangement relationships. Of course, our home, the earth, with its blue ocean and changing clouds, shows a colorful appearance, which is unmistakable. Saturn is characterized by her beautiful halo, which is irreplaceable; Mars is the closest to the earth in all aspects, so it has been recognized by various science fiction works as having intelligent creatures, and it is easy to recognize; others, it seems Pluto is the farthest from the sun, Jupiter is the largest...and I can't say anything else. Next to this picture, scale models of the nine planets were made out of balloons, hanging high and low. After reading the previous pictures, you can check whether your judgment is correct.

Scale balloon models of the nine planets

The East Hall is a history of aviation. There is an exhibition room of the Wright brothers (Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright) on the second floor, which contains a 1:1 original aircraft model, as well as a reduced-scale model of the entire aircraft, models of equipment used at that time, and detailed text descriptions.

In the aisle on the second floor above the central hall, there is a Douglas D-558-2 high-altitude detection rocket. It looks like a compact jet aircraft, with a wingspan of 7.6 meters and a length of 12.8 meters. But it is actually a high-altitude rocket with four nozzles at the tail and wings on the fuselage. It can reach a speed of 2,078 kilometers per hour. The west hall is a display of aircraft from the two world wars. There is a World War I F.E.8 propeller aircraft with a wooden structure, covered double-layer wings, and a fan-like engine installed on the tail. The driver has almost no protection other than goggles.

A machine gun is installed right in front of the driver. It is a single-seat machine. I don’t know how the driver can drive and fire at the same time.

At the back of the lobby on the first floor is a Lockheed VEGA-5B aircraft. A large display board in front describes the experience of this aircraft. On the display board are news photos from that year, with Amelia Earhart smiling in a flight suit. The following is a text introduction:

This is the aircraft that was flown when it set two flight records in 1932: the first time a woman crossed the Atlantic alone; the first time a woman crossed the United States alone without stopping. On May 20, 1932, Earhart flew from Grays Harbor, Newfoundland, to Londonderry, Ireland, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, a journey of 3,260 kilometers, and a duration of 15 hours and 18 minutes; from August 24 to 25 of the same year, Earhart Crossing the United States between San Francisco and Newark, the flight spans 3,937 kilometers and lasts 19 hours and 5 minutes. In the newly built National Air and Space Museum in the United States, dozens of old and dated aircraft are on display. This picture shows the Boeing B-29 "Flying Fortress" that dropped atomic bombs on Japan during World War II.

An old aerobatic aircraft on display at the National Air and Space Museum has sparked a controversy because of a beer brand plastered on its wings and fuselage. On February 25, 2006, the GlobalFlyer returned from Bournemouth, England, to Salina, Kansas, the United States. Jon Karkow, chief engineer and test pilot of Global Aircraft, completed the transatlantic flight. The aircraft will be sent to the National Air and Space Museum.

In early 2006, adventurer Steve Fossett had just completed a round-the-world flight in this aircraft and set a new flight distance record. Steve will personally fly the Global Aircraft from Salina to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., and then hand the aircraft over to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at the National Air and Space Museum.