San Diego Air & Space Museum
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San Diego Air & Space Museum is an aviation and space exploration museum in San Diego, California, United States. The museum is located in Balboa Park and is housed in the former Ford Building, which is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. SDASM was established by articles of incorporation on October 12, 1961, and opened to the public on February 15, 1963.
Museum entrance in 2009, with a Convair YF2Y-1 Seadart on the left and a Lockheed A-12 Oxcart on the right.
Entrance of the Ford Building with Firestone Singing Fountains, 1935.
The San Diego Air and Space Museum as seen from overhead in 2013.
The Apollo 9 Command Module Gumdrop flown in 1969 by James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart in preparation of the first lunar landing missions
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II. Despite various members of the armed forces being involved in the creation of the program, the WASP and its members had no military standing.
The WASP badge
Elizabeth L. Gardner, WASP member, at the controls of a B-26 Marauder
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilots, March 7, 1943
Fifinella, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) mascot, created by The Walt Disney Company.