What is the Wall of Honor?

The Wall of Honor is a permanent memorial at the National Air and Space Museum's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport. The Wall of Honor is dedicated to honoring all men and women who have had a passion for flight.

As Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of Charles Lindbergh, explains in her letter to supporters of air and space history,as it grows in the years ahead it will feature thousands of individual and family names, along with the names of aviation leaders including: the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Doolittle, Chuck Yeager, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Shannon Lucid.