Smithsonian Day Three
At the downtown Air & Space Museum this time.
Alan Shepard's REAL Mercury capsule. Robert Goddard's 1925 rocket. The "Spirit of St. Louis". The model of the Enterprise from Classic Trek. The X-1 and X-15. Tingmissartoq. The Gossamer Condor. The 1903 Wright Flyer. 100+ photos. Swapping-in the spare camera battery at around photo # 85.
And toward the end, spotting this hanging from the ceiling in the Space Exploration room. It looked familiar. Didn't I see that on the old Walt Disney show, in a "Tomorrowland" segment? Yes; on a monitor on the adjacent wall a video is running of Dr. Wernher von Braun, with this model, just like I remembered it from about age 9.
Note to self: when I come back to DC to see more of the downtown museums, do NOT come in July!
And after three days of hiking through museums, I am SO ready to sit in my truck for a couple of days, enroute to the Geneseo airshow. Which I hope does not get rained-out; the Weather Channel is expecting thunderstorms on Saturday in that part of New York State.
Alan Shepard's REAL Mercury capsule. Robert Goddard's 1925 rocket. The "Spirit of St. Louis". The model of the Enterprise from Classic Trek. The X-1 and X-15. Tingmissartoq. The Gossamer Condor. The 1903 Wright Flyer. 100+ photos. Swapping-in the spare camera battery at around photo # 85.
And toward the end, spotting this hanging from the ceiling in the Space Exploration room. It looked familiar. Didn't I see that on the old Walt Disney show, in a "Tomorrowland" segment? Yes; on a monitor on the adjacent wall a video is running of Dr. Wernher von Braun, with this model, just like I remembered it from about age 9.
Note to self: when I come back to DC to see more of the downtown museums, do NOT come in July!
And after three days of hiking through museums, I am SO ready to sit in my truck for a couple of days, enroute to the Geneseo airshow. Which I hope does not get rained-out; the Weather Channel is expecting thunderstorms on Saturday in that part of New York State.