There are 50 interactive exhibits (with 50 more to come) that let you piece together various flying cars on a touchscreen or sample early popular songs inspired by the “aeroplane.” The exhibitions combine a hobbyist’s passion with a professional’s acumen, providing enough of an aerial tour so we can glimpse the scale of the skyscape and space-scape the museum is offering up for the next generation. Here, too, is the Columbia, the command module of Apollo 11, mounted in a vitrine you can walk around to get a sense of the astronauts’ confinement. Here is the 1903 Wright Brothers Flyer that lifted off at Kitty Hawk, N.C., mounted at eye level so you can see just how daring the pilot had to be, lying between wooden-framed strips of cloth. But even this portion requires a day to carefully absorb and offers more than most museums could hope for. ![]() Just eight of the 23 exhibition spaces are complete the rest will be unveiled a few years hence. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum-one of the most popular museums in the nation-reopened its west wing last month, four years into a seven-year renovation that is costing roughly $1 billion.
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