Udvar-Hazy Center
The Nation’s Spacecraft Hangar!
The Udvar-Hazy Center is located in Chantilly, Virginia and is the companion facility to the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
![Space Shuttle Discovery](https://www.nar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/NARCON2017_Shuttle_Discovery.jpg)
Space Shuttle Discovery on display in the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. Image by Dane Penland, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. More: airandspace.si.edu/discovery
Opened in 2003, its two huge hangars — the Boeing Aviation Hangar and the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar — display thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, and the Space Shuttle Discovery.
The Center also offers the Airbus IMAX® Theater and the Donald D. Engen Observation Tower, which gives you a 360-degree bird’s-eye view of Washington Dulles International Airport and the surrounding area. Udvar-Hazy
Center is also home to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar where preservation of the National Air and Space Museum’s collections takes place. A glassed-in mezzanine provides a view of restoration projects in progress. Researchers will also find the majority of the Archives’ collections at the Udvar-Hazy Center reading room.
The museum is open from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm (10:00 am to 6:30 pm June 8 – September 5, 2016). And is closed on December 25th.
Admission is free but, there is a $15.00 charge for parking (per car load) before 4:00 pm and includes in‑and‑out privileges. After 4:00 pm parking is free (the Museum closes at 5:30 pm). Parking refunds are available if you are just dropping passengers off.
Floor Plans and Guides for the Udvar-Hazy Center can be found at https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center/floor-plans-guides. Or, open a copy of the floor plan guide from https://airandspace.si.edu/files/pdf/visit/Udvar_Hazy_Center_Floor_Plan.pdf.
To locate a specific artifact, search the objects on display at http://airandspace.si.edu/collections. Please note that object locations may change, and exhibit galleries may occasionally be closed to the public without prior notice.