1976, July 2 – National Mall Outside the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution – Washington, DC – Gerald R. Ford, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Warren Burger, S. Dillon Ripley, Michael Collins, Others – standing, watching robot arm cut ribbon after receiving signal from VIKING Spacecraft – Bicentennial Event – Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Dedication of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution- Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Director, Air and Space Museum
This Day in History – June 10, 1969 – The X-15 gets a place in history
10 June 1969: The U.S. Air Force donated the first North American Aviation X-15, serial number 56-6670, to the Smithsonian Institution for display at the National Air and Space Museum. The first of three X-15A hypersonic research rocketplanes built by North American for the Air Force and the National Advisory Committee (NACA, the predecessor of NASA), 56-6670 made the first glide flight and