I am invited by Americans

I have visited many museums for my final project. But I did not go D.C for few weeks because I have to take care of my wife who is pregnant.

But, the chance came to me that I could see Americans' life through visiting their house.

Last Saturday, my wife and I went John's house where his wife and two daughters were waiting our family. we were so glad to meet each other. Specailly, his daughter, Laura, 3 years old, who really liked me because I gave ice cream to her. They prepared a lot of food such as LA rips and shrips, Kim-chi, rice, 된장 soup and so on. I already bought a bottle of sweet wine for them. we opeded and drank together. It was very delicious. We talked a lot. most of them were about economic, religion, and American lives. John got married with Korean woman who speaks both languages fluently. I feel confortable while talking together. They told me that if I live in the U.S, I can spend more time with my family. om the otehr hand, if i live in Korea, you have to stay more time at working place. I was enough to understand what she was talking about. Also. we compared American and Korean culture in companies. In South Korea, some times, we cannot get out of the company when their boss is on the office. They have to read another's face. But John said we do not need it in the United States. why is it different? This is a difference of culture between Korean and the U.S.

We talked more than 4 hours only in English. John encouraged me with praise than I am a good English speaker. I do not thinks so . I still have to study more. But, he said you speak English well. I Feel very good when he said like that.

He promised me that we meet together as soon as possible.

I saw how they are living in the U.S ans learned what American culture is.

Have you ever seen this big airplane

This is so amazing becasue Boeing 747 is carrying 400 passengers.

Designed for Pan American to replace the 707, the giant Boeing 747 rre

volutionized long-distance air travel when it entered service in 1970. carrying 400 passengers two and a half times more than the 707 it offered for lower seat-mile costs. peopelled by four powerful and efficient high-bypass turbofan engines, the Jumba jet spawned a new generation of wide- body airliners from Airbus, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, and later Boeing.

Natioanl Ait and Space Museum

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History

Originally called the National Air Museum when it was formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress, some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia after which the Chinese Imperial Commission donated a group of kites to the Smithsonian. The Stringfellow steam engine intended for aircraft was accessioned into the collection in 1889, the first piece actively acquired by the Smithsonian now in the current NASM collection.
After the establishment of the museum, there was no one building that could hold all the items to be displayed. Some pieces were on display in the Arts and Industries Building, some were stored in a shed in the Smithsonian's South Yard that came to be known as the "Air and Space Building", and the larger missiles and rockets were displayed outdoors in "Rocket Row."
The combination of the large numbers of aircraft donated to the Smithsonian after World War II and the need for hangar and factory space for the Korean War drove the Smithsonian to look for its own facility to store and restore aircraft. The current Garber Facility was ceded to the Smithsonian by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1952 after the curator Paul E. Garber spotted the wooded area from the air. Bulldozers from Fort Belvoir and prefabricated buildings from the United States Navy kept the initial costs low.
The space race in the 1950s and 1960s led to the renaming of the Museum to the "National Air and Space Museum", and finally congressional passage of appropriations for the construction of the new exhibition hall, which opened July 1, 1976 at the height of the United States Bicentennial festivities. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center opened in 2003, funded by a private donation.
The museum will receive several artifacts, including a former camera, that were removed from the Hubble Space Telescope and returned to Earth after Space Shuttle mission STS-125, which was Hubble Service Mission 4. The museum also holds the backup mirror for the Hubble which, unlike the one that was launched, was ground to the correct shape. There were once plans for it to receive the Hubble itself, but plans to return it to Earth were scrapped after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003; the mission was re-considered as too risky.
The Smithsonian has also been promised the International Cometary Explorer, which is currently in a solar orbit that occasionally brings it back to Earth, should NASA attempt to recover it.

Natioanl Ait and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, and is the most popular of the Smithsonian museums. It maintains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and spaceflight, as well as planetary science and terrestrial geology and geophysics. Almost all space and aircraft on display are originals or backup crafts to the originals.
Because of the museum site's close proximity to the United States Capitol, the Smithsonian Institution wanted a building that would be architecturally impressive but would not stand out too boldly against the Capitol Building. St. Louis-based architect Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum accepted the challenge and designed the museum as four simple marble-encased cubes containing the smaller and more theatrical exhibits, connected by three spacious steel-and-glass atria which house the larger exhibits such as missiles, airplanes and spacecraft. The massing of the museum echoes the National Gallery of Art across the National Mall, and uses the same pink Tennessee marble as the National Gallery. Built by Gilbane Building Company, the museum was completed in 1976. The west glass wall of the building is used for the installation of airplanes, functioning as a giant door.

Apollo at Natioanl Air and Space Museum

NASA's Apollo Program landed the first humans on Earth's moon. US President John F. Kennedy announced his support for a manned moon landing on May 25, 1961, as part of a special address to a joint session of Congress

Kennedy's goal was accomplished during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 with the landing of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins orbited above. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last one in December 1972. In these six Apollo spaceflights twelve men walked on the Moon. These are the only times humans have landed on another celestial body.[2] The Apollo program, specifically the lunar landings, has been called the greatest technological achievement in human history