Milestones of Flight Audio Tour
Explore the Museum's Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall and hear from one of our docent tour guides about incredible accomplishments in aviation and space.
Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall (2016) by National Air and Space MuseumSmithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
The Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, located at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, celebrates some of the most significant airplanes, rockets, and spacecraft in history. They tell tales of ingenuity and courage, war and peace, politics and power, as well as society and culture. These milestones have made our planet smaller and the universe larger.
In this audio tour of the exhibition hall, explore four of the history-making artifacts on display.
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John Glenn orbited the Earth in Mercury "Friendship 7" in 1962. By doing so, he showed that the United States could compete with the Soviet Union in the Cold War space race.
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Gemini IV achieved the first American spacewalk, a major step toward living and working in space.
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The Apollo lunar module represents one of humanity’s greatest achievements: landing people on another heavenly body.
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In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic in the Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis.
