"More than a year ago, we set out a specific plans for return to flight with specific milestones," William Readdy, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, said in a statement.
BLAGNAC, France — The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, took off successfully on its maiden flight Wednesday, a milestone for aviation and for the European aircraft-maker's battle with American rival Boeing Co.
The first woman to fly the U.S. Mail began her milestone flight at Santa Monica in 1938.
It is in the central Milestones of Flight exhibition hall in front of the Jefferson Drive entrance, sharing the main hall with other pioneering flight vehicles such as the Wright Flyer, the Spirit of St . Louis the Bell X-1, the North American X-15, Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7, and Gemini 4. Armstrong's and Aldrin's space suits are displayed in the museum's Apollo to the Moon exhibit.
Milestones of Flight Gallery, National Air and Space Museum.
SpaceShipOne now hangs next to the Spirit of St Louis in the Smithsonian's Milestones of Flight gallery in Washington DC.
It was a Pakistani airbase from which Francis Gary Powers took off in 1960 on his ill-fated U-2 spy flight, one of the milestones of the cold war.
Usually displayed in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall is the Apollo 11 command module "Colombia" that carried Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins to the Moon and back.
However, the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall does still have the Apollo to the Moon exhibition, with souvenirs and artefacts galore, including Armstrong's gloves and helmet from Apollo 11.
