My second visit to this fascination museum of flight and space in Washington DC.
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Exterior of Museum of Air and Space with National Capitol in the background.
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An identical postcard that I bought and mailed from DC to myself in June 2019 via my Jersey City address.
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1903 Wright Flyer. I bought the postcard in the museum and mailed to myself.
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A different view of 1903 Wright Flyer.
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Lockheed 5B Vega - Amelia Earhart flew this red plane in two world record breaking flights in 1932.
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P-51 Mustang - one the best World War II fighter plane.
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Ford Tri-Motor, Tin Goose, is a thirteen passenger capacity and one of the best airliner in the 1920's.
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Voyager in Dec 23, 1986 - the first non-stop non-fueled flight around the world.
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Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh for first Atlantic non-stop solo flight in May 1927. Bell X-1 (background) flown by Captain Charles Yeager - first airplane faster than the speed of sound.
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Computer controlled Grumman X-29; Mariner 10 backup for Mercury-Venus mission launched in 1973.
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SR-71 Blackbird is a long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed and manufactured by the American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation.
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"Failure is not an option" made famous by movie Apollo 13 where 3 astronauts on April 11, 1970 returned safely to Earth. I bought and mailed this postcard from mailbox in the museum.
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Earth from Space - photo courtesy of NASA postcard. I bought this postcard and mailed it to myself in Malaysia from the mailbox inside the museum.
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Space Race Gallery. I bought this postcard and mailed it to myself through the mailbox in the musuem.
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Skylab Orbital Workshop 1973-74 backup.
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Astronaut Edwin Aldrin Jr. with flag at Apollo 11 mission - photo taken Astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. I bought this postcard at the museum and mailed to myself in June 2019.
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Apollo Lunar Module (LM-2) one of 12 built for Apollo moon landing program. I was rushing writing the postcard for mailing before the museum closing time to drop into the mailbox inside the museum.
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Gemini 4 spacecraft of first space walk.
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Space Shuttle Discovery awaits lift off in October 1998.
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Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on Oct 29, 1998.
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