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The Smithsonian National air and space museum shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mar mars. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the Smithsonian National air and space museum located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. Our tour guide is valerie neal, head of the Space History Department at the museum who shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration fr...

In the boeing milestones flight all at the center of the museum and this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transformed the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and it was for most people, their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of space exploration, when humans...

They take certain things at home screenings, that is, blood is taken there for a special test a piece of paper, is sent to a special center, where a genetic analysis is carried out for the maximum amount, and this is just a medical service, you dont look anyone in the eye, they just give you some kind of table, yes, but nevertheless, in general, this is done here this is for everyone, its like any screening, you know, that is, when the coverage is maximum. Limiting potentials simply filters out ...

The apollo lunar module. Heres a preview. When children look at this spacecraft they often say that doesnt look like a spaceship because we tend to think that spacecraft are stream lined and maybe they look like rokts more than anything else, but this spacecraft has an interesting design and in many ways its fairly primitive given the job that it had to do. It didnt need to be streamlined on the outside because it was not going to operate in the atmosphere. It would only operate in the vacuum of...

The apollo lunar module. Heres a preview. When children look at this spacecraft they often say that doesnt look like a spaceship because we tend to think that spacecraft are stream lined and maybe they look like rokts more than anything else, but this spacecraft has an interesting design and in many ways its fairly primitive given the job that it had to do. It didnt need to be streamlined on the outside because it was not going to operate in the atmosphere. It would only operate in the vacuum of...

The apollo lunar module. Heres a preview. When children look at this spacecraft they often say that doesnt look like a spaceship because we tend to think that spacecraft are stream lined and maybe they look like rokts more than anything else, but this spacecraft has an interesting design and in many ways its fairly primitive given the job that it had to do. It didnt need to be streamlined on the outside because it was not going to operate in the atmosphere. It would only operate in the vacuum of...

The apollo lunar module. Heres a preview. When children look at this spacecraft they often say that doesnt look like a spaceship because we tend to think that spacecraft are stream lined and maybe they look like rokts more than anything else, but this spacecraft has an interesting design and in many ways its fairly primitive given the job that it had to do. It didnt need to be streamlined on the outside because it was not going to operate in the atmosphere. It would only operate in the vacuum of...

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...

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...