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Transcription: The National Air and Space Museum is among the most popular museums on Earth. It's part of the Smithsonian complex. Displayed here are many of the original vehicles that helped to fulfill man's eternal dream of flight through the air and to the stars. Overhead at the main entrance is the original Wright Brothers flyer. In 1903 at Kitty North Carolina, this fragile craft launched the almost limitless age of powered flight. The spirit of St. Louis is here too. In this tiny high wing monoplane, Charles A. Lindbergh made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic, New York to Paris in 1927 ...