The View From the Castle: America's finest Air and Space Museum is planned for 1976 to display and give meaning to a unique Smithsonian collection
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PrintSmithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley describes the revived plans for the National Air and Space Museum, which was chartered in 1966 but abandoned due to the Vietnam War. Ripley discusses the worth and uniqueness of the new museum that is scheduled to open on the Mall in 1976.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
Smithsonian Vol. 2, no. 12 (Journal)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
March 1972
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