Erik's trip to Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Baltimore June and July, 2014
the Hope Diamond
July 7 Monday — Smithsonian
Day 20
Erik chose to spend our last full day in Washington at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and Air and Space Museum
Day 20
Erik chose to spend our last full day in Washington at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and Air and Space Museum
Erik and Grandpa Arthur
on the Metro
Arthur and Erik in front of a natural sheet of copper
Erik in front of a
huge quartz crystal
Dom Pedro Beryl Aquamarine found in Brazil
model of earth's moon showing spaceship landings
Mundrabilla is an iron
meteorite found in 1911
in Australia
After lunch of fried chicken and a cupcake, we went over to the Air and Space Museum.
The Hubble Space telescope
a drone
We then walked over to the Lincoln Memorial.
the Lunar Lander
Erik and Abraham Lincoln
Martian landscape as mapped by Spirit Rover
artist rendering of Martian dunes
Erik took the next four pictures inside the Skylab Orbital Workshop.
Erik emerges from the Skylab Orbital Workshop
From the Korean War Memorial, we walked over to the memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr.
a full-size model of the Wright brothers bi-plane
Lindbergh's Spirit of Saint Louis
SpaceX One
Lindbergh's Spirit of Saint Louis
a walk-through cockpit of a modern airliner
Douglas Dauntless and Douglas Skyhawk
