(202) 357-2700
Independence Ave SW at 6th St SW
Anacostia Annex,
DC
20373
38.8876
-77.0199
Neighborhoods: Washington Mall, Northwest, Northwest Washington
Hours:
Mon-Sun 10am-5pm
What People Are Saying About National Air and Space Museum
The Editor
Contributor
Citysearch
Facts & Features – As the country that first took to the skies, it is appropriate that the nation's capital should house the world's foremost museum dedicated to the story of flight. Opened in the bicentennial year of 1976, Air and Space is easily the most popular Smithsonian museum on the Mall, with more than nine million visitors each year. – Among the museum's highlights are the 1903 Wright Flyer, which made the first manned flight (for 12 seconds; Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, in which he made the first solo flight across the Atlantic; and the Apollo 11 command…








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