National Air and Space Museum
Benefits from Flight
July 1, 1976 – 1982
This gallery explores the many roles that air and space flight have played in the 7 decades since Kitty Hawk and the social consequences of air and space technology.
Highlights include:
- Automatic Picture Transmission Ground Station
- Orbiting Astronomical Observatory prototype
- International television transmissions presented on 6 screens (video-taped highlights)
- Replica of the atomic bomb
- Cartoons illustrating the industry that produced these technologies
- Kinetic sculpture that suggests how technology is transferred from air and space to other uses
