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The National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian’s museum of aviation and spaceflight in Washington, D.C., was established in 1946 as the National Air Museum and opened its National Mall building in 1976. Among the world’s most visited museums, it traces flight from early experiments to space exploration and is noted for displaying original or backup craft, including the Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis, Friendship 7, and Apollo 11 command module Columbia. The museum grew from scattered postwar collections, later expanded with the Udvar-Hazy Center, and today serves as both a major public attraction and a research center while its main building undergoes extensive renovation.
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