"The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum maintains the world's largest and most significant collection of aviation and space artifacts. This magnificently illustrated keepsake book collects its most iconic objects, from the Apollo 11 spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore as the first man on the Moon to the bright red Lockheed 5B Vega Amelia Earhart flew in two record-breaking flights. Packed with more than 250 captivating photographs that tell a story about dreamers reaching for the sky and the stars, the book offers a curated tour through aviation and space history including: the earliest forms of sustained flight from kits to the Wright brothers, development of World War II aircraft and commercial airliners, Space Age-era breakthroughs, recent innovations like SpaceX and military F-35 fighters, pioneers such as Bessie Coleman, Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard, and Sally Ride"-- Page 4 of cover.