Don’t let down time at an airport get you down.  If you have downtime at Dulles Airport (Washington DC), you can visit the Steven F. Udvar- Hazy Center, companion museum to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (located on the National Mall).  Between the two museums, the Smithsonian offers the largest aviation and space collection in the world.
Udvar-Hazy is full of exhibits that you may find familiar, including the Enola Gay, an Air France Concorde, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, the Gemini VII space capsule, and the quarantine unit used for the returning crew of Apollo 11.   There are …read more