Description: Amy Ballard is a senior historic preservation specialist emerita with the Smithsonian’s Architectural History and Historic Preservation Office, where she worked between 1985 until her retirement in 2016. She was promoted to senior historic preservation specialist in 2010. Ballard has contributed to plans for new buildings, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the
Description: The National Air Museum was created by a congressional act on August 12, 1946. Its name was changed to the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in 1966 as part of a congressional act authorizing a separate building to house its collections. The museum opened to the public on July 1, 1976. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center located in Chantilly, Virginia, opened to the public on
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Installation of the Apollo-Soyuz space vehicles in the National Air and Space Museum before it is open to the public, May 24, 1976, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Negative Number: 76-6944-2."][/caption]