National Air and Space Museum
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Location:![]() 600 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC |
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| Price: Free |
Phone number: (202)357-2700 |
- The largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world including:
- The Wright Flyer, which made the first flight in 1903
- Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis is here, the plane in which he flew the first solo across the Atlantic
- Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1 in which he made the first powered supersonic level flight.
- The command module of Apollo 11 which landed the first mission on the moon
- Visitors can touch a lunar rock sample
- The original starship Enterprise from the television show

