| The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, also called the Udvar-Hazy Center, is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)’s annex at Washington Dulles International Airport in the Chantilly area of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It holds numerous exhibits, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, the Enola Gay, and the Gemini 7 space capsule. (The photos below were take prior to Space Shuttle Discovery being installed but does have Spae Shuttle Enterprise – The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the centerpiece from 2004 to 2012, when Space Shuttle Discovery took its place. Enterprise went to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.)
The 760,000-square-foot facility was made possible by a $65 million donation in October 1999 to the Smithsonian Institution by Steven F. Udvar-Házy, an immigrant from Hungary and co-founder of the International Lease Finance Corporation, an aircraft leasing corporation. The main NASM building, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., had always contained more artifacts than could be displayed, and most of the collection had been stored, unavailable to visitors, at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility in Silver Hill, Maryland. A substantial addition to the center encompassing restoration, conservation and collection-storage facilities was completed in 2010. Restoration facilities and museum archives were moved from the museum’s Garber facility to the new sections of the Udvar-Hazy Center. Source: Wikipedia ____________________________________ We visited the museum in 2011, soon after the facility opened (and before Space Shuttle Discovery was installed) as part of the ‘In The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia’ tour, which you can see here: In The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia The museum is in two distinct parts – ‘Air’ and ‘Space’, these are the ‘Space’ photos. |
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Space Shuttle Enterprise
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