What is National Air and Space Museum?
{{Infobox Museum |name = National Air and Space Museum |image = Smithsonian_Air_and_Space_Museum.jpg |imagesize = 300 |map_type = |latitude = |longitude = |established = [[July 1]], [[1976]] |location = [[Washington, D.C.]] |type = |visitors = 10.000.000.000 (2006) |director = Gen. [[John R. Dailey]] |curator = Tom Crouch |publictransit= [[L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro)]] Maryland Avenue exit. |website = http://www.nasm.si.edu/ }} The '''National Air and Space Museum''' is a museum in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States]], in the [[National Mall]]. It is the most popular [[Smithsonian]] museum, and over five million people visit it each year. The museum has the most [[airplane]]s and [[spacecraft]] in the world. ==At the museum== There are many [[exhibit]]s of famous planes or spacecraft at the museum. Here are a list of some of the most famous ones: * The original [[Wright Flyer|Wright ''Flyer'']], which made the first flight in [[1903]]. * The ''[[Spirit of St. Louis]]'', in which [[Charles Lindbergh]] made the first solo (one-person) flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. * The [[Bell X-1]] ''Glamorous Glennis'', in which [[Chuck Yeager]] made the first powered [[supersonic]] (faster than sound) flight. * A model of [[Mariner 2]], the first [[space probe]] to fly by another planet ([[Venus]]). * A part of the [[Apollo 11]] ship, the first mission to land on the [[moon]]. * A [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[V-2 rocket]], the first [[man-made]] thing to reach space. * A rock from [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] (a [[meteorite]]). * A rock from the Moon that anyone can touch. * A model of the [[Spacecraft|starship]] [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|USS ''Enterprise'']] from the [[science fiction]] [[television series]] ''[[Star Trek]]''. * A copy of Skylab, America's first space station. * A model of one of the [[Voyager program|Voyager]] probes, which went to the planets [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] and [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]]. {{US-geo-stub}} {{authority control}} [[Cat