Well, they call it the “Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center,” but I’m not calling it that. It’s the place in Virginia with all the cool big aerospace stuff. Which works for me.
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I also saw Friendship 7 and the Concorde, but I forgot to get pictures of those. Anyway, we went with the kids, who started out being far too cool for the thing — and ended up snickering about space diapers and being properly revolted over astronaut ice cream. So it was a good time all around. Seriously: if you ever get the chance to go, go. As I said, it has all the BIG stuff, and you can go right up to them and take a good look. Totally worth the trip.
Moe Lane
There was a time when I thought freeze-dried ice cream and Tang were about two of the coolest food items to ever exist.
I’m jealous of your kids. Even at the age of 6, mine never got past the “too cool for this”. (Eyes were especially rolled when I tried to pass on stories from a relative who had been an aerospace engineer at the Skunkworks. It was horrifying.)