点评:The Air & Space Museum is in the middle of renovating and modernizing the museum and only about 2/3 has been completed. This is the most popular museum in America. You need to reserve free tickets in order to enter. Even with tickets, the museum was too crowded to enjoy it thoroughly. (One year I visited on the Monday after Thanksgiving and it was a pleasure with all of the kids back in school and the adults at work.)
I saw a show in the Planetarium and explored the newly opened "Futures of Space" Gallery. One of the highlights was a full-scale model of the "New Shepard Crew Capsule", designed by Blue Origin. It was interesting to see what past generations thought the future would look like. The poster of "2001: Lunar Base Clavius" in my photo was made in 1968 by Robert T. McCall. McCall created the artwork to advertise the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".
翻译:美国航空航天博物馆正在进行翻新和现代化改造,目前只完成了大约三分之二。它是美国最受欢迎的博物馆。你需要提前预约免费门票才能入场。即使拿到了门票,博物馆里也人满为患,难以尽情参观。(有一年感恩节后的星期一,我去参观,孩子们都回学校了,大人们也都去上班了,感觉非常惬意。)
我在天文馆看了一场演出,还参观了新开放的“太空未来”展厅。其中一个亮点是由蓝色起源公司设计的“新谢泼德号载人舱”的全尺寸模型。看到前人对未来的设想很有意思。我照片里的“2001:克拉维斯月球基地”海报是罗伯特·T·麦考尔于1968年创作的。麦考尔创作这幅作品是为了宣传电影《2001:太空漫游》。