Museum of Space Travel
The Guide to Great Space Exhibits and Museums
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Jan 4th
Your host with Apollo astronaut Al Worden
Hello and welcome to the new re-launched (although currently “beta”) version of Museum of Space Travel!
What You’ll Find Here
First of all, you’ll find information on space museums and exhibits. The entries will be updated by the museums themselves (for museums that chose to do so). Also, you can post your own comments and observations, or read comments written by others.
There is a forum area to discuss museums, exhibits, spaceflight-related subjects and the website itself.
As time goes by, we will be updating this site, revising it—and listening to user requests. Thanks for your interest!
Adler Planetarium
Oct 20th
This venue in Chicago houses Lovell and Aldrin’s Gemini XII spacecraft, along with many of Jim Lovell’s personal effects, including his rejection letter from the Mercury program, and his flown flight plan from Gemini XII. The permanent exhibit, A Journey with Jim Lovell, opened November 11, 2006 and features a multimedia presentation about the Gemini XII flight narrated by Lovell.
Adler Planetarium: excellent artifacts about James Lovell
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Air Force Space & Missile Museum
Nov 14th
Perhaps the most impressive space-related artifact here is the original Gemini “white room”, where astronauts suited up and made final preparations for their flights. Also, on the grounds of the museum, is launch complex 5/6, from which Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom made the first two manned Mercury flights.
To visit the museum, you go to the Kennedy Space Center and take the bus tour, “Cape Canaveral: Then and Now.”
Their website suggests — “For Air Force Space and Missile Museum Information: please call the Museum Director at 321-853-9171″. So, if I’ve left you confused here (for example, how is this museum separate from the Kennedy Space Center?), you might want to call.
Armstrong Air & Space
Nov 14th
Located in Armstrong’s home town of Wapakoneta, OH, this museum has the original flown Gemini 8 spacecraft—in which Armstrong and Dave Scott performed the first American docking in space—and nearly died when they went into a wicked spin. Also on display: the plane in which Armstrong learned to fly; Armstrong’s backup spacesuit for Apollo 11; a Gemini spacesuit fitted for Armstrong; an Apollo 11 moon rock; and a space shuttle landing simulator.
Armstong Air & Space in Ohio
Bartlett’s Exploratory
Nov 14th
It’s amazing that this venue in Wisconsin a 43 foot long core module of the Mir space station—the actual backup for the Russian space station that hosted Russian and American crews in the 1990s.
Address: 560 Wisconsin Dells Parkway, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
Phone 608-254-2525
Tommy Bartlett's Exploratory