In my opinion, no trip to DC would be complete without a visit to one of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museums. This trip, I re-visited the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center since they had acquired the Space Shuttle Discovery. I was pretty freaking excited. The last time I visited, they only had the flight test airframe, Enterprise.
The Discovery was also the star of one of my favorite space shuttle photos, which I re-used for this posts’s feature photo!
Anyways, onwards to OV-103!!!
^look at it! inspiring young minds!
The gear doors are THICK
dat brake line routing…
Those main engines…
dat vertical stabilizer, those main engines, annnd the OMS/RCS Pod!
oh yeahhhh!!! Let’s get a closer looks at that RCS nitrogen purge system!
The plane, from the movie, that got me into planes!!!
The other plane that got me into planes!
I don’t think I could ever get sick of this place… yay for billionaires who give back! although that parking fee is kind of steep!