A museum belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. It houses the world's largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft. It was established in 1946 as the National Air Museum (NAM) and was renamed in 1976 when it was relocated in a separate building. The museum has hundreds of artefacts on display, including the Apollo 11 command module, a lunar rock sample that can be touched by visitors, the Mercury Friendship 7 capsule, the Apollo lunar roving vehicle, spacesuits, the Gemini 4 spacecraft, and the Skylab 4 command module. An additional building, the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, named after a major donor, was officially opened on 10 December 2003 at the Washington Dulles International Airport. It has 70 611 sq m of space, and opened with dozens of space exhibits, including the Enterprise space shuttle, and 80 aircraft.

https://airandspace.si.edu Browse the huge air and space collection of the Smithsonian Museum via this site's ‘Collections and Research’ pages. There is information about the various museum departments and their special exhibitions.