VA -- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center -- Conservation Hangar:
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AIRC_180328_16.JPG: Vostok I
1/3 scale model
Yuri Gargarin
First manned spaceflight
1 Orbit April 12, 1961
Ahead, behind ATS-6 antenna
AIRC_180328_21.JPG: Lincoln Standard
H.S. biplane, World War I trainer and postwar barnstormer
Fabric covered wood structure.
To your right
AIRC_180328_26.JPG: Sonic Wind I
Rocket sled
USAF Lt. Col. John Stapp
632 mph in 5 sec
40 G's accel
Dec 10, 1954
Black welded sled on rails
Returning soon
AIRC_180328_30.JPG: Iridium Sat.
Phone satellite
66 in service
Provide global coverage incl. poles, oceans
triangular X-section behind rd dish
AIRC_180328_35.JPG: Martin B-26 Marauder
Flak Bait
200+ missions in WW II
Now being preserved in shop (to your right)
AIRC_180328_40.JPG: ATS-6
Antenna from first education TV satellite
Aluminum ribs
Dacron mesh
30 ft. dia. (6 ft stowed)
(directly ahead)
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Description of Subject Matter: Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar
Summer 2012 – Permanent
Watch from the mezzanine as museum specialists reconstruct, repair, and preserve the historic aircraft, spacecraft, and other treasures in the National Air and Space Museum's collection. The Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar is spacious enough to accommodate several aircraft at a time. Items currently on view include the Martin B-26B-25-MA Marauder "Flak-Bait," which flew 207 missions over Europe during World War II, more than any other American aircraft, and the Apollo Telescope Mount, a solar observatory from Skylab, America’s first space station. A Sikorsky JRS-1, the museum’s only aircraft stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is also visible.
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