Join in the fun as the Smithsonian celebrates its 150th anniversary. Receive a free Associates' planning packet . Special materials await you there.
Admission is free, but passes are required.
See Highlights Continued . See The Object at Hand , September 1996. How Things Fly New permanent gallery elucidates the basic principles of flight. Exhibition features the forward fuselage of the Enola Gay , the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Display features meteorite from Mars containing microscopic structures and traces of organic compounds, suggesting life once existed on the red planet.