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Summary

A coffee-table format book providing complete photographic coverage of the National Air and Space Museum. Describes the five major galleries of the museum -- Early Flight, Golden Age of Flight, Jet Aviation, Looking At Earth, and Stars -- with extensive histories of the aircraft and spacecraft exhibited in each gallery. The book includes an Aerospace Chronology, Technical Appendix, and Bibliography.

Subject

  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Air Museum (U.S.)

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

(Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1979

Topic

  • Airplanes
  • Flight
  • Aeronautics
  • Exhibitions
  • Museums
  • Space flight
  • Rockets (Aeronautics)
  • Astronautics
  • Galleries
  • Aeronautical museums
  • Space vehicles

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