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Like this one. Thats correct. We have a certain percentage here on the National Mall and at the center but quite a few of artifacts are in storage. Jeremy kinney, thanks very much for your time. Happy 40th birthday. Thank you very much. Its more than aviation and space exploration, from moon to mars as we continue our tour inside this museum. Well start our tour right here with the lunar module, the icon for the landing on the moon in july 1969. It has a companion space craft, the apollo command...

Exploration from the moon to mars. Valerie neal i am valerie neal. We are in the milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. This is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transformed the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary death spaceflight and it was, for most people, it was their first chance to see what had been lauded ...

Transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july every to back on display had recently been on the move. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and for most people, their first chance to see what had been lauded in 1960s and 70s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first went off the planet into space and all the way to the main. When the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to export the nearby planets. All of this was excitin...

Earlier, only a small percentage is here. You have more in storage than youre able to show. We just have a certain percentage here. But its quite a few of the artifacts are on loan or in storage. Jeremy kinney, thank you very much for you time. Thank you. Happy 40th birthday. Thank you very much. Its more than aviation, its also Space Exploration from moon to mars as we continue our tour inside this museum. Well start our tour right here with the lunar module. The icon for the landing on the moo...

Cowling, what i mean is that theres a tight figtting metal covering and allows the air to flow over more efficiently. So, mark burket of the spanish Swiss Company has designed a very important series of automobile engines in the prewar era. He adapts this to the aeronautical application by taking two of his inline four engines, makes it into a v8, and what he does thats very unique is instead of having separate cylinders attached to the crank case, he casts a row of cylinders out of a solid piec...

The moon. So its actually fairly flimsy in some areas. The legs are obviously strong and mount for the rocket engine is strong but the craft itself and particularly the crew module or crew cabin was really fairly spartan. It had two windows. Neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. Both of them were standing. They were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. It was not really...

Theyre part of the original collection here in fact, and we were provided those during the period where we were destroying those launch vehicles in both russia and here. We have another call from steve in new york. Steve, go ahead, please. Caller hello, general . Is anybody on the other end there . Yes, we are. We can hear you. Caller hello . Go ahead, steve. Hello. Caller you know, when columbus sailed for america, he didnt know it at the time, but Queen Isabella funded his expedition. And they...

Take three months to start back in the old days. Even took two or three days when we first started doing it by air because they flew by day and then took the train at night and flew by day and took the train. So the range speed pay load and the capabilities and safety, safety is a really major portion of this entire program. Youre going to keep it for a few more minutes and then show our audience some of the artifacts and exhibits here at the museum but let me get a call joining us from oregon. ...

For the lanning ding in the moo july of 1969, it had a companion spacecraft. The command module l aand the lr module carried kneel armstrong and Michael Colins and buzz aldrin to the moon. This lunar module is a module that never flew in space. It is a lunar model two thats intended to be used in the test flight. The test was cancelled and as unnecessary. It consists of two parts, the base which has the legs and, the rocket engine in it and then the oddly shaped top which is the crew cabin and t...

Airport. Hawaiian Airlines Flight 47 turned back and made an unscheduled landing at mineta san jose airport. The problem was a cracked in windshield. The boeing 767 landed a little before noon yesterday. The passengers got off the plane and were given meal vouchers while the airline worked on the problem. A little after midnight this morning before they were on another plane on their way to hawaii more than 12 hours behind schedule. Be tired when they get there. One of the newest cases of measle...