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lonestarflight · 5 months

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"The Space Shuttle Enterprise (back) and Mercury Capsule 15B 'Freedom 7-II' (front) is among many spacecraft that is on display at the National Air and Space Musuem, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center where opening ceremonies took place, in Chantilly, Virginia. The museum, featuring over 80 aircraft, some 60 large space artifacts and dozens of aircraft engines and other artifacts displayed in thematic groupings, will be open to the public, December 15, 2003."

Date: December 11, 2003

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rabbitcruiser · 9 months

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The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donated $500,000 on August 10, 1846.

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sabistarphotos · 7 months

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December 11, 2022

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC

#photography #star trek #enterprise #starship enterprise #uss enterprise #space: the final frontier #smithsonian #smithsonian institution #national air and space museum #washington dc #dc #district of columbia

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petsincollections · 1 year

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Mascot, Douglas World Cruiser, "Maggie"

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Stuffed toy monkey mascot "Maggie"; tan cotton body with light tan vest; black drawstring back around neck; white fur beard; small light tan cap; signature of "Leigh Wade" on left side of vest.

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Each member of the World Flight carried a stuffed monkey as a mascot. "Maggie" was carried on board the "Boston" as a good luck charm. It was signed on the side by "Boston" pilot Lt. Leigh Wade.

National Air and Space Museum

#monkeys #mascots #national air and space museum #smithsonian institution

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macgyverphotography · 1 year

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When this SR-71 Blackbird was delivered to the National Air and Space Museum, it set a speed record for a flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., at 1:04:20.

#Blackbird #Boeing Aviation Hangar #Chantilly #Convention #Lockheed #MediaFest22 #N3N-3 Trainer #National Air and Space Museum #Naval Aircraft Factory #Pentax K-3 #SPJ #SR-71 #Seaplane #Smithsonian Institution #Society of Professional Journalists #Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center #Vacation #Virginia

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cetaceous · 11 months

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Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia image credit: Eric Long/Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum

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tennessoui · 1 year

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I totally get not using Hazy lmao. BUT- if you want Obi-Wan to sound super uptight and Anakin super laid back- have Obi-Wan use the full names for the museums, and Anakin the institute-wide slang

National Air and Space Museum- Nasim, African American History and Culture- Namac, ect

ooo i love further insider context and you know im a big fan of slight differences between anakin and obi-wan's speech patterns ("maybe" for anakin, "perhaps" for obi-wan; "but" for anakin, "however" for obi-wan)

though further than that, i'm honestly not sure how much i'm aiming for uptight obi-wan and super laid back anakin in this au. i feel like they really share that here and also have the strongest possible narrative bias when it comes to describing the other's actions:

for instance, in this ficlet for the smithsonian au, anakin gives himself a tummy ache because obi-wan brings a new coworker to lunch :( which feels not laidback OR particularly chill; and in this smithsonian au ficlet (their first meeting!!), obi-wan sort of starts a game of footsie under the table with padmé's hot texan friend which is not uptight......but in this ficlet, anakin sees obi-wan's actions as cool and aloof and uptight and rude (when really obi-wan is just a touch heartbroken) and in the fic i'm currently writing for this fic to go on ao3, obi-wan is thinking about how he could never ever like anakin skywalker at all because he's TOO laidback and describes him like this:

Skywalker likes American barbecue and Johnny Cash and he probably grew up driving a truck until he crashed it; he’s cocky and smug and an olive lover, for god’s sake, a twenty-nine year old child prodigy who acts more like the adjective than the noun. He’d trip over his own feet half the time with how often he’s got his head pointed towards the sky of all things if it weren’t for the flocks of people who fawn all around him specifically to prevent that sort of thing.

even though a few scenes later, he'll find him stressing the fuck out over budget problems and unable to leave for their scheduled lunch date

a lot of the smithsonian au is based on perceptions, wrong or right, and the power they hold over us when we're making connections with others + the extent to which we can lie to ourselves about something we're not ready to embrace even though everyone else can see it + silly rocketman in big meanie love with silly water man makes brain go brrrrrrrrrrr

#asks #smithsonian au #obikin #i adore this au tbh it's one of my top fives i think no joke #oooo and your other ask about the clones!!! and the name pun of wolfgang vs wolffe #love!!!#idk if the clones come up yet i forget if ive included them already #i think ive just been makng ocs for ease of my own sanity #but you make a strong case for includng the clones if just for this!

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usafphantom2 · 5 months

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In 1961, Air Materiel Command became the Air Force Logistics Command, while the Air Research and Development Command gained responsibility for weapon system acquisition and was renamed the Air Force Systems Command. On July 1, 1992, the Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Systems Command were reintegrated to form the new Air Force Materiel Command.

On March 6, 1990, the #972 SR-71 made the record-breaking flight from Southern California to Washington, DC, in 67 minutes and 49 seconds. Not bad for a test bird.

Have you ever noticed the red logo above the Skunk Works logo on the SR 7 1#972 at the Stephen Uvdar- Hazy center part of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution?

Next time you visit the museum, look at the tail.

There was another SR-71 that also had the Skunk Works logo. It was the 955; it was considered a test bird; the 955 was never supposed to leave the United States, but it did; it flew from Palmdale to Europe during the 1980s to test the new ASARS system.

At the end of the program, the 972 was also a test bird. It was transferred to Air Force logistics.

In Paul Crickmore‘s new book Lockheed Blackbird: Beyond the Secret Missions, The Missing Chapters.

On page 315, there is a picture of # 955 SR 71 with the tail number, serial number, and skunk logo painted over. This is what Paul Crickmore said in his new book “ Lockheed Martin approach the United States Air Force to make a film using an SR 71. The “fighter mafia” refused. But the AFLC said yes and allowed the 955 to be available for the film. They painted out the serial number and the skunk logo.”

~there was a way around the “fighter mafia” after all.

Linda Sheffield Miller

@Habubrats71 via X

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the-telescope-times · 2 years

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October 4, 2022

65 years ago today, the Soviet Union put Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit. Sputnik contained a radio transmitter that sent back the “beep-beep-beep” heard around the world. The satellite began the "space race" between the USSR and the USA.

Original post by: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution on Facebook

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iknowdino · 2 months

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#OnThisDay in 1994, Louis R. Purnell, Sr., a decorated Tuskegee Airman, curator of the United States’ National Air and Space Museum (and the Smithsonian’s first African American curator), and #paleontologist gave an interview about his life for the Smithsonian Institution Archives

He accomplished many things, and on the paleo side he published a catalog of invertebrate fossils type specimens

In his interview he talks about his career, including his time at the National Museum of Natural History

#paleontology

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airmanisr · 2 years

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Transport T-2 by Willard Womack Via Flickr: This Forkker F-IV, renamed by the Army the T-2 (Transport 2 in order to avoid the name Forkker just three years after World War 1) became the first aircraft to fly nonstop coast to coast. The plan was to fly from West to East in order to have tail winds. After two failures, although one did set a time aloft record, the plan changed to fly from long Island to San Diageo. This route would allow them to burn off much of their fuel before reaching the mountains. The two pilots, Lt Oakley Kelly and Lt John Macready had only a compass and highway maps for navigation. One flew the plane, sitting next to the V-12 400hp engine. The other sat being fuel tanks in the fuselage. The noise had to be deafening, and their only way of communicating was a clothesline type arrangement where written messages could be sent back and forth. They changed positions every six hours, coordinating this with the message system. The pilot in back would fly, with his set of controls, while the other moved aft and replaced him. This pilot would then move forward to the cockpit and take the controls there. This arrangement repeated four or five times during the flight. They flew below clouds in misty rain, and across the Western plains, at night, with no ground lights in sight. Once they circled for several minutes’ burning fuel in order to fly through a mountain pass, and did so at only 100 feet above the ground. They had departed on May 2, 1923 and arrive 27 hours, 50 minutes and 20 seconds later, May 3 1923. The T-2 is now in the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum.

#Forkker F-IV #T-2 #aircraft

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lonestarflight · 5 months

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"A crowd at Dulles International Airport welcomes the Space Shuttle Enterprise on its arrival to become part of the collections of the Smithsonianʼs National Air and Space Museum. The Enterprise was brought to Dulles atop a NASA Boeing 747 aircraft."

Date: November 18, 1985

Smithsonian Institution ID: 83-13571, 83-6415.05

#Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Enterprise #OV-101 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Boeing 747 SCA #Boeing 747 #747 #Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Dulles International Airport #Washington DC #November #1985 #my post

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rabbitcruiser · 7 months

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Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 4, 1957.

#Sputnik 1 #Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum #free admission #USA #Smithsonian Institution #first artificial satellite #launched #4 October 1957 #anniversary #history #engineering #original photography #tourist attraction #landmark #Washington DC #summer 2009 #indoors

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sabistarphotos · 7 months

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December 11, 2022

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC

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whumpster-fire · 2 years

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Recent Titles I Have Acquired

Honorary Alumnus of the University of Phoenix

International Man of Memes

Knight of the Clown Table

Ordained Minister of the Universal Life Church

Most Likely to be Personally and Specifically Condemned by the UN Security Council (as voted by my high school senior class by unheard of margins)

Employee of the Month (later revoked due to that motherfucker Jerry)

Second-Chair Air Violinist of the Wyola, Montana Philharmonic Orchestra

"Worst Pirate I’ve Ever Heard of” (awarded by Special Agent Hugh Cox of the Federal Bureau of Investigations’s Really Cool Crimes Division shortly after foiling my plot to illegally download the USS Constitution off of Limewire and use it to perform shore bombardment of Salt Lake City by making Great Salt Lake so shallow that I ran aground near Molly’s Nipple. Those Mormon landlubbers never would’ve seen it coming)

Honorary Alumnus of Subway Sandwich University

Warrior-Poet

Guinness World of Record, “Most consecutive clown egg designs rejected by the Clown Egg Registry”

Supreme Ruler of Danbury, Ct (disputed)

Senior Secretary to the Deputy Vice President of the “Received A Lifetime Ban From An Applebee’s In All 48 Contiguous States And the District Of Columbia” Club

Fresh Prince of Bel Aire (title inherited following previous holder’s disgrace and abdication)

Guinness World Record Holder, “Most Bones Broken During A Single Trampoline Stunt” (later revoked due to rules revision requiring that all bones broken belong to record holder)

Guinness World Record Holder, “Most Casualties and Collateral Damage Caused By A Single Trampoline Stunt” (record subsequently discontinued due to “encouraging poor moral character”)

"Best Pirate I’ve Ever Seen” (awarded by Special Agent Hugh Cox of the Federal Bureau of Investigations’s Really Cool Crimes Division shortly after successful shore bombardment of Milwaukee, Wisconsin using illegally downloaded armored cruiser USS Olympia)

President of Hell’s Angels Cedar Rapids, Iowa Chapter (title gained through single combat, subsequently abdicated after instituting rule limiting engine displacement to 50cc so that I can get some peace and goddamn quiet)

Cryptid “Some maniacally giggling vaguely humanoid being in Groucho Glasses,” last seen in Stroudsburg, PA, 2019

The Scourge of Syracuse

Guinness World Record Holder, “Noise Complaints Caused in Most Cities Within a 1-Hour Timespan” (record actually set during my famous 1973 “Carbon-Phenolic Ablative Ball Run” from St. Augustine to San Diego with a time of 1:57:23, but only recently officially recognized after previous record holder was retroactively disqualified for use of atomic weaponry. Record discontinued 2 weeks later at urging of Texas and Arizona state patrols for fear that future attempts would be made using same route). The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has once again denied my application to display the record setting vehicle “SuckMyFuckingBallsCops Geraldine” unless they are granted permission to paint over and censor the name and the “obscene” (sic) nose art, which I will not stand for as it is a violation of my 1st Amendment rights.

Guinness World Record Holder, “Most Casualties from Single Errant Golf Shot,” set on August 28th, 2021 at the Sunnyside Country Club Golf Course in Fresno, CA, using a 5-iron from the tee box at the 13th Hole. Number of casualties was 45 at the time of Guinness discontinuing the record to discourage future attempts, but has since increased to 61 and may continue to increase as more victims are discovered.

Guinness World Record Holder, “Holder of Most Discontinued World Records”

The Defiler of Barstow (I am currently disputing this title with the National Barbarian Pillaging Association as city was already in defiled state long before my arrival)

Personally and Specifically Condemned by the UN Security Council for willdly successful shore bombardment of Puno, Peru and Copacabana, Bolivia using illegally downloaded HMS Trincomalee

Personally responsible for Copacabana, Bolivia now holding Guinness World Record for Highest Altitude City To Be Bombarded By Pirate Ship, unseating previous record holder of Tahoe City, California although city has so far not answered my requests to have statue erected next to commemorative plaque

Gold Member of my local public radio station. I have the thank you coffee mug to prove it.

#shitpost #high-effort shitposting #death tw #atrocities tw #crimes against humanity tw #golf mention #Barstow California mention cw #true stories #lists #piracy #i was bored

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virtualjustin · 1 year

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Managed to benefit from the fastidiousness of friends who secured tickets to the newly-reopened National Air and Space Museum! The NASM had been closed for several years due to extensive renovations and only just reopened earlier this summer! (at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClhOICoOqiZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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