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Space Science

Air and Space Museum

The space sciences collection includes objects ranging from engineering models, components, and prototypes to mockups and models representing the full range of scientific activities performed on space vehicles, including both suborbital and orbital satellites, probes, and landers, as well as missions flown into orbits around other celestial bodies, including the moon, other planets, the Sun, and the Earth’s Lagrangian points.  Specific subject matter areas include but are not limited to astrophysics, biology, the earth sciences,  geophysics, planetary science, and solar physics.  Collections areas also include artifacts from the ground-based sciences that represent the intellectual and technical infrastructure within which the problems addressed by the space sciences are rationalized.


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  • Scientific instruments 207 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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  • National Air and Space Museum Collection 398 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA 116 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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  • National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC 21 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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Record, Voyager, Sounds of Earth

Biomedical Experiment, Microscope Slides

Clock, Hydrogen Maser, Mass Measurement

Electronics, Vector Helium Magnetometer, Planetary Probe, Pioneer 10

Sensor, Vector Helium Magnetic, Planetary Probe, Pioneer 10

Receiver, Maser, Traveling Wave

Lander, Mars, Viking, Proof Test Article

Glassware, Nucleotide Experiment, Ponnamperuma

Camera, Television, Mariner 6 and 7

Satellite, Micrometeoroid Detection, Explorer 23

Square, see-through container with multiple instruments inside labeled by function. The labels read Electrical Connections, Ion Source, Electric Sector, Mass Spectrometer, Magnetic Sector and Ion Pump, Electron Multiplier, Atmosphere Filter, Column, Gas Chromatograph, Effluent Splitter and Separator, Hydrogen Carrier Gas Tank, GC Vent, Atmospheric Inlet, Soil Loader and Soil Ovens, and Soil Inlet.

Planetary Probe, Viking, Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer

Camera, Television, Surveyor

Spectrometer, Infrared, Telescope Aiming Device, Skylab

Spectrometer, Infrared, Acquisition Optics, Skylab

Full view of a gray and white cylindrical camera. There is an orange wire on the side.

Camera, Imager, Viking Mars Lander

Solar Wind Composition Experiment

Satellite, OSO-1, Prototype

Photomultiplier, Open Cathode, OAO-III

Mirror, Telescope, Stratoscope I

2.2 Micron Telescope, Infrared, Caltech

Spectrograph Camera, Grazing Incidence, Skylab

ATM, Spectroheliograph, Film Magazine S-082A

ATM, Spectrometer, H-alpha, Film Magazine

Telescope, Infrared, Aerobee

Mariner 10 Spacecraft made out of aluminum, and mixed metals.

Spacecraft, Mariner 10, Flight Spare

Magnetometer Boom, Mariner 10

Planetary Probe, Viking Mars Lander, Biology Experiment

Control and Display System, Satellite, IUE

Telescope, Infrared, Airborne, Learjet

Detector, Gamma-ray, OSO-I

Satellite, International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), Engineering mock up

Solar Panel, Satellite, IUE, Test Unit

Solar Panel, Satellite, IUE, Test Unit

Full view of a camera covered in gold foil sitting on a tripod. A green wire connects it to a small green box.

Camera, Lunar Surface Ultraviolet, Apollo 16

ATM, Coronagraph


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