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Smithsonian Institution - The National Air and Space Museum

Above: Bronze portrait medal of James Smithson, 1817, founder of the Smithsonian Institution

Above: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York visits the Smithsonian on June 27, 2006. Dr. Vujovic is in front of the Hubble Telescope.

Above: Vanguard I satellite on March 15, 1958 became America's second satellite in space.

Above: The Apollo 14 command module.

Above: The electric-powered lunar roving vehicle.

Above: The Apollo 15 space suit.

Above: Man on the Moon.

Above: Skylab Space Station launched in 1973.

Above: The Hubble Space Telescope carried into Earth orbit on a 1990 Space Shuttle mission, it is a camera into space revealing spectacular details from stars and nebulae within our galaxy.

Above: Russian Space Station MIR and the Shuttle.  Launched in 1986, the modular space station MIR was occupied almost continuously for more than a decade.  Beginning in 1995, Mir was the setting for a series of joint space missions by the United States and Russia.

Above: The International Space Station docked to a Space Shuttle orbiter.  Circling Earth at a height of 250 miles, the International Space Station (ISS) is a joint project of the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia.

Above: Lunar Module.

Above: Lunar Module.

Above: Description of the Lunar Module (Apollo 11 Spaceship)

Above: Our solar system.

Above: Russian and American cooperation in space.  Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft connected with docking module.

Above: Russian and American cooperation in space.  Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft connected with docking module.

Above: American and Russian cooperation in space.  American astronaut Tom Stafford shakes hands with cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov following the historic docking of U.S. Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft.

Above: Man on the Moon.

Above: Man on the Moon.

Smithsonian Institution - The Hubble Space Telescope, Imaging the Universe