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The National Air and Space Museum will temporarily close on March 28, 2022. When it reopens in fall 2022, it will reopen with eight new galleries.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had denied claims that illegal immigrants are being flown from the southern border to suburban New York in the middle of the night.
Itâs 6:30 a.m. on a Friday. Iâm sitting at the Starbucks at Redwood Plaza. How I missed this place. For 14 months, Cheryl and I ate breakfast at home, prevented by the pandemic from enjoying our end-of-week rendezvous with the green mermaid. Instead of a cheese danish, warmed, I made do with Cheerios. As soon as Starbucks restored indoor seating, we were back. Why Starbucks? Other places in town serve coffee thatâs the equal or better. Other places sell tastier pastries. It goes back to when my son was in high school in the â90s. Weâd sometimes stop at the new Starbuc...
Conserving Artifacts for the Future As part of the Museum’s ongoing renovation and transformation of all 23 exhibits and public spaces, half of the museum has closed, and nearly 2,000 artifacts have been removed from the Museum’s location on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and taken to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center for conservation and storage in the nearby Dulles Collections Center. Conservators and restoration specialists at the Udvar-Hazy Center were hard at work in 2020 on preserving, conserving, and restoring these artifacts. Although they lost several months of work due to be...