#udvar-hazy center

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[hyper-coasters]

DO NOT ROLL, TUMBLE OR DROP

The Sparrow missile is a medium range air-to-air missile with semi-active radar homing that was used by the US Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Developed by Raytheon and used in the Vietnam and Gulf wars. Pictured above is the Sparrow II, which, when developed, came with the new freedom of being able to fire at multiple different targets back-to-back. The small size and type of radar used in the Sparrow II model led to poor performance and was abandoned in 1956.

[lonestarflight]

"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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Space Stuff

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Space shuttle Discovery, Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

[iloveschiaparelli]

If you go with me to a museum be forewarned I only have 2 states of being:

[commodorez]

GRiD laptop used as a Space Shuttle payload and general support computer in 1993.

Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, VA

[un-ionizetheradlab]

Ever seen the underside of a space shuttle?

Space Shuttle Discovery, at the Udvar-Hazy Center/Air and Space Museum outside Washington, DC.

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird by KSBD Photo

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[hyper-coasters]

Located at the Smithsonian Institution Udvar-Hazy center, is this Focke-Wulf Fw 190, otherwise known as the Würger. It is a single pilot WWII aircraft developed in Nazi Germany, by designer Kurt Tank. It's first flight was on the 1st of June, 1939. It was retired in 1945.

[lonestarflight]

"Space Shuttles Discovery Arrives at Udvar-Hazy

Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Chantilly, Va. Space shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles will take the place of Enterprise at the center to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers at the center."

Photo Credit: (NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Carolyn Russo)

Date: April 19, 2012

NASA ID: 201204190016HQ

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Observation Tower

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The Grumman A-6E Intruder attack aircraft was used from Vietnam to Bosnia. This particular aircraft flew missions in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm.

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When I was a kid I used to build model airplanes and hang them from my bedroom ceiling.

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia

photos: David Castenson

[commodorez]

Here's the subject of the photograph Gemini 6A

And here's Gemini 7, the vantage point from which the photo was taken by Jim Lovell