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Later this year, the National Air and Space Museum will reach substantial completion on a multiyear renovation effort that includes systems to better maintain consistent interior temperature and humidity.
After more than 40 years of chronicling the nation’s storied exploration of the sky and heavens, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., was, in a word, tired.
Reprinted courtesy of Jim Parsons, Engineering News-Record
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