A Museum That Feels Like An Elegy

Are we the same people who landed on the moon 66 years after the first flight?

We visited the Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia the other week. That’s the big one out in the D.C. suburbs, near Dulles Airport, built in the early 2000s. It’s always a fun visit. The place is cavernous, in a way that a building in a city can’t quite be, and the planes, which at first look sort of thrown around, are actually displayed quite c…