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Accession 13-047

National Air and Space Museum

Website Records, 2012

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Air and Space Museum
Title:Website Records
Dates:2012
Quantity:
Collection:Accession 13-047
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of three websites maintained by the National Air and Space Museum. The "How Things Fly" website, crawled June 1, 2012, explains the basic principles that allow aircraft and spacecraft to fly. It is a companion website to the physical exhibition of the same name. The "Become a Pilot Family Day and Aviation Display" website, crawled in three parts on June 25, 27, and 28, 2012, provides information about the museum's event of the same name which occurred on June 16, 2012. A subdomain of the museum's main website dedicated to the space shuttle Discovery was crawled on April 17, 2012, the same day it flew over Washington, District of Columbia. Discovery arrived at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center two days later when it was transferred from the United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the National Air and Space Museum. The website includes information about the space shuttle as well as associated events. Materials are in electronic format.

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This accession consists of three websites maintained by the National Air and Space Museum.

The "How Things Fly" website, crawled June 1, 2012, explains the basic principles that allow aircraft and spacecraft to fly. It is a companion website to the physical exhibition of the same name.

The "Become a Pilot Family Day and Aviation Display" website, crawled in three parts on June 25, 27, and 28, 2012, provides information about the museum's event of the same name which occurred on June 16, 2012.

A subdomain of the museum's main website dedicated to the space shuttle Discovery was crawled on April 17, 2012, the same day it flew over Washington, District of Columbia. Discovery arrived at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center two days later when it was transferred from the United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the National Air and Space Museum. The website includes information about the space shuttle as well as associated events.

Materials are in electronic format.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 13-047, National Air and Space Museum, Website Records

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Electronic Records

"How Things Fly" website, crawled June 1, 2012

Electronic Records

"Become a Pilot Family Day and Aviation Display" website, crawled June 25, 27, and 28, 2012

Electronic Records

Discovery website, crawled April 17, 2012

Electronic Records

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