Watch from the mezzanine as museum specialists restore the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver and other treasures in the National Air and Space Museum's collection.

Photographs and memorabilia provide a peak at the role Japanese American stewardesses played in Pan American World Airways' efforts in the mid-1950s to become the pre-eminent carrier over the Pacific.

Prints by Robert Taylor depict World War II.

Some 160 large space and missile artifacts and 500 smaller space history artifacts are on view to illustrate the scope of space exploration history. 

Some 400 objects from the museum's collection of ballooning memorabilia illustrate how ballooning captured the public's imagination during the 18th century in Europe and America.

More than 160 aircraft are currently on view to illustrate the scope of aviation history, including military, commercial, business, sports, and pre-1920 aviation and vertical flight (helicopters).