National Air and Space Museum - Gallery of Exhibits

Gallery of Exhibits

The main museum on the mall includes 61 aircraft, 51 large space artifacts, over 2,000 smaller items as of June 1, 2007.

  • Ad Astra ("to the stars"), the sculpture at the entrance to the building

  • Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft

  • Apollo 11 Command Module

  • Soviet SS-20 and U.S. Pershing II rockets

  • SpaceShipOne

  • Bell X-1

  • The Spirit of St. Louis

  • Pioneer H

  • X-15

  • Apollo–Soyuz Test Project Display

  • The space suit worn by David Scott on Apollo 15

  • Ballistic missiles

  • Apollo Lunar Module LM-2

  • Replica of lunar space suit

  • Original Star Trek production model of the USS Enterprise

  • Side view of a former Northwest Boeing 747-100B

  • Former Eastern Douglas DC-3

  • Lockheed U-2

  • 25-foot long model of the LZ 129 Hindenburg used in the 1975 movie, The Hindenburg

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