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Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher

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V-2 Rocket Engine Combustion Chamber cutaway

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Rolls-Royce Avon Mk 28-49 Turbojet Engine

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Command Module, Apollo 16

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Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-1830-92 Radial Engine

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Turbopump, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, F-1 (Recovered)

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Glove, Space Shuttle EMU Space Suit (right)

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Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1a

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Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service: The WAVES Program in World War II

Imagine a photo taken before the 1970s. You’re probably thinking of a black and white image, because color was not in common use before then. Specialist (X) second class Marcelle Whiteman gently holds ...
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Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Spacesuit

This exhibit is now closed. In this display, Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit from the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing was back on the Museum floor for the first time in 13 years. The spacesuit underwent an ...
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Spinning Out of Control: Gemini VIII’s Near-Disaster

Gemini VIII lifts off atop a Titan II rocket with command pilot Neil Armstrong and pilot David Scott aboard. Fifty-five years ago, on March 16, 1966, the Gemini VIII astronauts made the world’s first ...
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IMAX—Not the First, but Close!

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