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...acclaim last December, the 53,000-square-foot James S. McDonnell Space Hangar was inaccessible because of the needed refurbishment of its centerpiece, the Space Shuttle Enterprise. With that project now completed, hundreds of other artifacts have been installed in the exhibition hall, from a 69-foot floor-to-ceiling Redstone missile to the tiny "Anita," a spider carried on Skylab for web formation experiments.
The hangar and its holdings illustrate the scope of space exploration history as organized around four main themes: rocketry and missiles; human spaceflight; application satellites and space science.
"The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has always been known as the home...
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