This morning we drove south to Manassas National Battlefield, site of the first major battle of the Civil War.  Civilians came out to watch the battle, and many thought this would be the first and last battle of the war:

This display has lights imbedded in the terrain which illuminate in synchronization with the narration to explain the order of battle:

After watching the park film, we toured the visitor center:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their badges:

After three days straight of Civil War sites, we were glad to get away from that subject and visit the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center annex of the National Air and Space Museum:

A World War II era Vought F4U Corsair:

A Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest aircraft ever made:

A Republic-Ford JB-2 “Loon”, copy of the German V-1:

The Space Shuttle Discovery:

Looking up into the instrument unit ring of a Saturn V rocket:

The restoration hangar.  In the foreground are the wings and fuselage sections of a B-26 Marauder:
 

A Mobile Quarantine Facility, an airstream RV converted by NASA to house the astronauts after landing while they were being checked for contamination by extra-terrestrial microbes:

Here it is in use:

The Concorde:

The Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, the airplane that made the first solo nonstop flight around the world in 2005:

The Gossamer Albatross, winner of the second Kremer prize by being the first human powered aircraft to cross the English Channel:

There was a display board about Operation Migration:

Lockheed Super Constellation:

A Boeing 307 Stratoliner, look at all that chrome:

The Enola Gay, the B-29 that bombed Hiroshima:

After touring the museum, we drove to the nearby Walmart of Chantilly, Virginia to overnight.  Trish worked on her latest craft, crocheting:

See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.