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'''Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum Washington Dulles''' (Click to rotate)

... back-up copy of humanity's accumulated knowledge and culture—so Earth's best museum may end up on the Moon. Another idea would have those cultures that use a ...

... six years, before taking a position as art director for the National Air and Space Museum 's Albert Einstein Planetarium. He left there in 1977 to became a freelance illustrator and ... original paintings are in numerous private and public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Pushkin Museum (Moscow). He designed a set of ten commemorative postage stamps for the U.S. Postal ...

... 11 was brought in by the Smithsonian Institution to head the National Air and Space Museum. There was a function where Stu Roosa and Michael Collins were together, and Michael Collins ... be sharp.” We were planning on a movie theater in the museum, so I called the engineer that is designing the museum. He was Japanese. I befriended him when we talked about ... rocket to the Moon. Fabulous history of aviation with fantastic resolution and magnificent scenery. The Museum cannot take it off. People in Washington request it. So we did it; we started ...

... other nonprofit organizations and institutions. For example, some twenty-seven, twenty-eight years ago, a museum was built in Hutchison, Kansas. You may have heard of it, the Kansas Cosmosphere and ... tear down the old airport. We want to make a museum out of it, and we hear you’re the aerospace museum specialist.” And I said, “Well, that’s right.” So that ... ’s just continued to ring. Working with the Japanese, a new space museum in Ikuyu phonetic , Japan, a new space museum in Nagoya, working with NASA contractors, Spacehab, Johnson Engineering, Muniz, Engineering ...

... > Footnotes note 1 ''Special thanks to Kerrie Dougherty, former Curator of Space Technology, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, for guidance in researching all aspects of this chapter. '' Philip Freund, ''Myths of ... Kim Poor note 104 Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics ; Ben Finney, “The Cosmicization of Humanity” in A. Houston and M ...

... constructed as laboratory for experimentation and design of programs and equipment for Spacearium in new museum. Museum library was being reorganized to standards of other Smithsonian Institution libraries. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO ... . Museum was considered most active museum in Switzerland and Europe’s most popular transport museum. Planetarium rated second to New York‘s American Museum- Hayden Planetarium in number of annual visitors. Swiss Transport Museum’s ...

... share $6.2 million in grants through NASA's Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums. Participating organizations include museums, science centers, Challenger Centers and other institutions of informal education. Selected projects ... , engineering or mathematics educational opportunities, including planetarium shows and exhibits. In conjunction with NASA's Museum Alliance, the grants focus on NASA-themed space exploration, aeronautics, space science, Earth science, microgravity ...

... pieces in the Oberth-Winkler correspondence, mainly in the Deutsches Museum as well as in the Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum (Hermann Oberth Spaceflight Museum) in Feucht, Germany, covering the period from 1926 to ... Rohrwild and donated to the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Photo of this artifact now on exhibit in the Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia, USA ...

... )'' Dr. George M. Low , NASA Deputy Administrator, testified before House Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Aerospace Museum Study on H.R. 10771, introduced April 30, 1969, to authorize NASA study of advisability ... recommended existing museums, such as Goddard Rocket and Space Museum in New Mexico, be considered in study and that existing legislation for museum be taken into account so that legislation establishing second museum would ...

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