Research Catalog

Title

Official guide to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum / [David A. Romanowski, writer].

Author

National Air and Space Museum

Publication

Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2002.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Romanowski, David A.

Description

184 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.

Summary

This fully illustrated guide to the world's most-visited aviation and space museum is both an indispensable companion for visitors and a detailed history in itself of humanity's quest for flight.

Alternative Title

Guide to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Subject

• National Air and Space Museum > Guidebooks
• Airplanes > Museums > Washington (D.C.) > Guidebooks
• Space vehicles > Museums > Washington (D.C.) > Guidebooks
• Washington (D.C.) > Museums > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

• travel guidebooks.
• Guidebooks
• Guides touristiques.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First-floor exhibitions: Milestones of flight -- Air transportation -- West gallery -- Golden age of flight -- Jet aviation -- Early flight -- South lobby -- How things fly -- Looking at Earth -- Explore the universe -- Exploring the moon -- Rocketry and space flight -- Space race -- Lockheed Martin IMAX theater -- Second-floor exhibitions: Albert Einstein planetarium -- Sea-air operations -- World War II aviation -- Legend, memory, and the great war in the air -- Exploring the planets -- Pioneers of flight -- Apollo to the moon -- Flight and the arts -- Beyond the limits; flight enters the computer age -- Other facilities: Paul E. Garber preservation, restoration, and storage facility -- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

ISBN

1588340023 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001034859

OCLC

47013258

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library