Shuttle Discovery / Air & Space Museum

[MyLittlePony]

My parents are in town visiting for a week, so I decided to take them to the Air and Space Museum since the shuttle Discovery is now there. I took a few pics, and played around with the new panorama thing on the iPhone, and figured I'd share a few if anyone is interested. It's low-light, so some are really grainy.. Full album is here.

View from the entrance:

Space hangar (with creepy slender-ized people due to panorama calculations):

Discovery Panorama:

Discovery, slightly singed from last reentry:

Discovery, BIG engines:

Discovery, my mom and dad for scale

SR-71 Blackbird:

The first plane that dropped the A bomb:

Awesome R2D2 mailbox:

Model used in Close Encounters of the Third Kind:

 

[Keleynal]

OMG I want that mailbox!

 

[Miranda]

I want to go there. ):

 

[MyLittlePony]

Guild visit to DC/VA! There are TWO of these here... very cool stuff if you're into this kinda stuff..

 

[Dan]

I saw this on American Pickers!

 

[Tribune]

Guild visit to DC/VA! There are TWO of these here... very cool stuff if you're into this kinda stuff..

Seconded. We've got the best museums, and a *lot* of them, lol. (also I would not have to drive anywhere to meet people, yay! /lazy)

Did you see anything at the IMAX there, Nahku? I remember seeing Goblet of Fire there. So much fun, invading the museum in a zerg of people dressed as hogwarts students of various persuasions.