WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Air and Space Museum opened the new Archives Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center to the public Tuesday, Jan. 10. The opening of the reading room is the culmination of a massive move that took place during Fall 2011, when the Archives Division consolidated the majority of its collections from the Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland, Md., into one location at the Steven F. Udvary Hazy Center. Visiting researchers will be able to access more than 2 million technical drawings, 1,600 cubic feet of technical manuals, more than 2 million photographs and 700,000 feet of motion picture film chronicling the history of aviation and spaceflight. The Museum’s Archives Division contains the personal papers of such notables as aircraft designer Giuseppe Bellanca, aviator Louise Thaden and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the Tuskegee Airmen. The collection also includes scrapbooks that record historic events,