Air and Space Museum Dulles annex

We headed to Dulles Airport this morning to spend about three hours exploring the Air and Space Museum annex housed there.

Our first stop was at the Space hangar and there to visit Discovery, the hardest working of all Space shuttles. It flew 39 missions and logged a total of 365 days in space. You have to see it in person to appreciate the machine. All the pictures I have seen couldn't come close to seeing it up close and personal.

In another section we saw the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima during the second world war.
It dropped the "little Boy" bomb developed at Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico.

The museum is a cornucopia of aircraft so I included this picture to give you a idea of what's there. If you are ever in WDC this is a must stop. Three hours is a minimum to see it all and you'll need more time if you want to see the I Max movies.




We then headed to Dulles Station and lunch with a long tine friend who lives here now. What a great day!