Visitors will soon get their first chance to gape at the new and improved National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall, which is halfway through a $1 billion renovation and slated to reopen to the public on Oct. 14.
The Smithsonian Institution hosted a media tour Thursday to show off the building’s west wing, which is chock full of really cool stuff including a model of the USS Enterprise from “Star Trek,” the original flyer built by the pioneering Wright brothers in 1903, and the spacesuit…
