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Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bike Museum
16 November 2009 6:15 PM | 2 CommentsYep. You read that right. Space & Bike Museum. Located in Sparta, Wisconsin (Deke's home town).
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Canada museum adds “space”!
The Canada Aviation Museum will be doing more than earth-bound aviation. It is adding space exploration exhibits. In fact, the museum will be changing its name to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. This is all part of an expansion—which will include adding a 300 seat theatre—and an agreement with the Canada Space Agency. The [...] -
LEARN about space, museums. Discuss! Share!
Museum visitors and space fans! Welcome to Museum of Space Travel, where you can: LEARN about museums, spacecraft and space history. DISCUSS individual museums and their exhibits with your comments and ratings. topics related to museums and space in our forums (coming soon). SHARE your experiences, stories and photos related to space and museum exhibits [...] -
Museums: connect with your audience…free.
We’re the guide to museums with exhibits about space exploration. If you are one of them, you need to be here. Actively. You can update and maintain your own page—providing timely and exciting information to your customers (and potential customers). It’s free and all you need to get started is email us. It’s easy to [...] -
Rocket at Grand Central Station
When the Soviets launched Sputnik and took hold of the “high frontier” in 1957…Americans were worried. We were unable to match that feat until more than a year later. And by then, the Russians had engaged in more amazing space accomplishments. To counter fears, the U.S. Army put a Redstone missile into Grand Central Station. [...] -
Adler Planetarium
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 [...] -
Air Force Space & Missile Museum
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 [...] -
Armstrong Air & Space
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; [...] -
Bartlett’s Exploratory
It’s amazing that this venue in Wisconsin displays 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 -
California Science Center
There’s some great artifacts to be seen here! The ASTP command module; Gemini 11; the monkey-flown Mercury-Redstone 2; and Tom Mattingly’s Apollo 16 spacesuit. 700 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA; phone: (323) 724-3623 -
Cradle of Aviation
Among the exhibits: the lunar module from the (unflown) Apollo 18 mission, on display here! Bet that Dick Gordon is still wishing he could take this baby out for a ride! (The Apollo 18 mission, which Gordon was slated to command was cancelled. Apollo 17 was the last moonlanding.) This LM is on long-term loan [...]
