Museum of Space Travel

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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; [...]

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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

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