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Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington DC

Space Shuttle Discovery at the Udvar-Hazy Center air and space museum in Washington DC (photo property of JoesWorldTour.com – all rights reserved)
Space Shuttle Discovery at the Udvar-Hazy Center air and space museum in Washington DC
(photo property of JoesWorldTour.com – all rights reserved)
The Udvar-Hazy Center is a massive air and space museum next to Dulles Airport in Washington DC and is part of the Smithsonian Institution.

It includes both civilian and military aircraft as well as displays from our exploration of space.

The thing that I found most fascinating was the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan at the end of World War II.

The Udvar-Hazy Center is open daily except for Christimas and admission is free ($15 for parking).

Official site: Udvar-Hazy Center: airandspace.si.edu

Official site: Enola Gay photo gallery: airandspace.si.edu