#airandspace

There she is. A Concorde. A masterpiece of engineering. 2180km/h or 1354mph is pretty impressive. #concorde #airandspace #cjinwashingtondc #travel #sightseeing #airfrance #museum (at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center)

I have to say I'm really impressed by the Air and Space museum. Opened in 2003, its two huge hangars — the Boeing Aviation Hangar and the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar — display thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde and the Space Shuttle Discovery. #airandspace #concorde #discovery #museum #aircraft #planes #cjinwashingtondc #sightseeing #amazing (at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center)

We made a neat Discovery today. The most famous space shuttle on the planet with over 27 years of service and 39 missions. #airandspace #museum #discovery #spaceshuttle #cjinwashingtondc #sightseeing (at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center)

A new museum? A 13 day public comment period window is now open for five different design concepts, depicted here, for a new east building addition to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. This upcoming museum building is planned to be completed in the next 3 years, opening in time for the sestercentennial of the United States in 2026. Gyo Obata’s (the architect of the main museum building) 1988 glass restaurant pavilion annex will soon be demolished to make way for the Jeff Bezos Learning Center, which will include the “New Shepard” aerospace craft (depicted in the photos below) in which Bezos made a suborbital space flight, just above the Karman Line, in 2021. Bezos stroked a $200,000,000.00 million dollar check to fund this upcoming museum building, along with a stipulation that, for a minimum of 50 years, Bezos’ name will be publicly displayed in multiple places around the entire museum complex, both inside, and also facing public streets on the outside of the building, and in advance of the completion of the new wing. The terms of the written agreement between Bezos and the Smithsonian Institution, do not include a morals clause, a provision that would have allowed the Smithsonian to terminate the naming rights if Bezos’s conduct and behavior brought disrepute to the institution. CBS Market Watch reporter Leslie Albrecht obtained a copy of the agreement with a public records request. If you spot any coverage of the public comment period on the designs in the news media, please consider bringing it to our attention. For further reading, and to file a public comment on this project directly with the Smithsonian Institution: https://airandspace.si.edu/about-transformation/bezos-learning-center #NASM #smithsonian #NationalAirAndSpaceMuseum #AirAndSpaceMuseumDC #AirAndSpace #AirAndSpaceMuseum #BezosLearningCenter #BezosMuseum #JeffBezos #BlueOrigin #BlueOriginSpace #WashingtonDCtravel #WashingtonDCvacation #NationalMallTravel #NationalMall #WashingtonDCbusinessTrip (at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) https://www.instagram.com/p/CifiP4Frj_f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Beautiful view of the upcoming storm from the @vaairandspace in Hampton! It was our first time visiting and we had a great time. The imax movie, Dinosaurs in Antarctica was on point! #hampton #hamptonroads #airandspace #museum #virginia (at Virginia Air & Space Science Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQr0WWoh1MM/?utm_medium=tumblr

Last week @nohz_since96 and me celebrating our anniversary going to a candlelight concert of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. It was very nice, socially distanced and cool to see all the planes in the museum. . #colorado #denver #wingsovertherockies #museum #airandspace #concert #candlelight #planes #jets #anniversary (at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMyVGHpB-XP/?igshid=16cbkexxuzlsu

Last week @nohz_since96 and me celebrating our anniversary going to a candlelight concert of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. It was very nice, socially distanced and cool to see all the planes in the museum. They even had several life size Star Wars things. . #colorado #denver #wingsovertherockies #museum #airandspace #concert #candlelight #planes #jets #anniversary #starwars (at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMySADThqw1/?igshid=t5un813vqete