National Air and Space Museum Washington DC

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We started in the National Air and Space Museum with a free tour - not so interesting for me but Dominic enjoyed it. We did see the first Wright brother's plane though. The Capitol building was quite interesting but had really tight security. I wasn't impressed when they said we had to get rid of all food and drink before entering, as we hadn't had …

Vandaag een drukke dag. We staan op tijd op omdat we, ook al vooraf in Nederland, een tour door het Capitool geboekt hebben. Weer met de taxi er naar toe, wat gaat dat snel. Het weer is mooi, zonnig en warm dus blauwe lucht, altijd leuk voor foto's. De tour valt iets tegen, je ziet maar een paar zalen en de gids praat amerikaans op een frans tempo …

Set out early for DC. Arrived mid afternoon and stopped on the way in at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. This is out of town as it's a big aircraft hanger where they store all the big stuff. We saw the prototype/test shuttle for the Endeavour mission and the landing capsules as well as the Enola Gay that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. There …

First off – how many people reading this know what DC stands for? Took me a couple of days walking past buildings saying District of Columbia to realise J

We stayed at the most amazing B&B, Mount Vernon Square B&B (in the district of Mount Vernon Square, not at Mount Vernon Square – as we realised after carrying 50kg of …

We took the metro to the Smithsonian Station, then visited American History Museum, Natural History Museum, and met Ian's classmate from Shanghai in Space Museum.

It was hot and exhausting day …

I returned to Washington, D.C. for a week in March 2012. I decided to take the time to actually go and see some of the sights. I worked in this city for so many years, but I never took the time to appreciate what a great city, Washington, D.C. really is. I know that Washington, D.C. is the most beautiful city from the air …

We had pretty much planned our trip up until New York after that we were heading onto Canada and our good friends Abo (Bau, Brown Bear, Catkins, Chris) and Mel's place in Toronto until we flew out later in the month. Given we had some time up our sleeves we decided to pull a shifty detour south west 4 hours to Washington DC….home to America&# …

We got up at 7 a.m. packed our bags, had a cup of coffee in the balcony and headed for the bus station. We said goodbye to the busy streets of NY and headed for Washington. The trip took 4 hours so we used this time for catching g up on editing pictures and writing the blog.

We got to the station at around 2 o'clock so we had 4 hours of …

The day was rainy and windy. Everyone was quite concerned about the hurricane Irene coming for a visit. We decided to ignore the weather conditions and to go to the city center. It was pouring down when we got off the bus so we went into the first museum we found on our way. It happened to be The National Gallery of Art. We were lucky to see the …

... we headed to the Holocaust Museum which whilst sad was very interesting.  Last stop for the day was the National Air and Space Museum where we spent the afternoon leaning about flight and airplanes, well Rick was already well educated but Megan and ...

... , we got to take a 1.5 hour tour that really only took us into two or three rooms.  We went into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to get lunch.  We did look around a little bit and ride a simulator ride before we walked over to the ...

... at basically any given opportunity. Whatever. You're bound to run into a yeller sometimes. We're the at the National Air and Space Museum. There's lots of stuff about gravity and space and rocket-ships. The stupid Internet won't work!!! For dinner we ...

... the poor old guy with his fumbled speech. He did know lots of stuff though. Next up is what I came to Washington for: The National Air and Space Museum. There are 2 Air and Space Museums in Washington. One in the city centre, the other is at the ...

... week een labrador uit de buurt te gijzelen, om het plaatje compleet te maken. Zondag zijn we naar het National Air and Space Museum geweest, enorm indrukwekkend. Een bijzonder gebouw met een mooi glazen dak, waardoor je je constant blijft beseffen ...

... 't check our bags at Chocolate World,PA hmmmm... Anyway, a short stroll to the very impressive foyer at the National Air and Space museum. Rocket ships, aircraft & space modules etc hanging from the ceiling - quite imposing as you walk in! Highlights ...

... , it didn't let off any foul smells.  The major activity today was a visit to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. What an amazing place.   Shuttle Endeavor in one corner, Tomcat, Hornet, Wright brother first plane to ...

... now open and patroned with college students and government employees.   We then went to the National Air and Space Museum, had dinner at this very good Burmese restaurant appropriately named Burma and finished the evening with ...

... , we know it's fast food but that's ridiculous!! After lunch we headed to the other side of The Mall and the National Air And Space Museum. Apparently it's the most visited museum in the world! It certainly has some incredible exhibits and again it's ...

We arrived at the National Air and Space Museum at 09:55, jumped into the air conditioned foyer, while waiting to enter at 10:00.  Hey we are early for once this trip!!!!  We went right off the bat to the IMAX theater to get tickets to ...