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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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Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry—while not strictly a space museum—has an impressive collection on, more or less, permanent exhibit. And they’ve got the Apollo 8 command module on display. As space buff’s know, Apollo 8 was the most dramatic leap in an otherwise step-by-step NASA program to reach the moon. No person had been [...] -
National Air & Space Museum
In Washington D.C. (and with free admission!) this is the ultimate place to see historic artifacts. The museum gets “first refusal” on everything that NASA discards. But, in addition to such items as Freedom 7, the Apollo 11 command module and a Viking lander, the museum also has Soviet artifacts on display, including Alexi Leonov’s [...] -
National Air Force Museum
Located at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio (1100 Spaatz Street), this venue has an impressive collection of space items. Space exhibits include a Mercury spacecraft (genuine but unflown), a Gemini capsule (used for testing, but unflown) and the VERY flown Apollo 15 command module, Endeavor. An unusual device on exhibit, the Marquardt Space [...] -
Naval Aviation Museum
You’ll never complete your mission to visit all the flown Apollo command modules without a trip here. They’ve got the Skylab II spacecraft. This was the first American mission to our first space station — Skylab. The crew, headed by Pete Conrad, fixed the damaged solar panels of the station and stayed for 28 days. [...] -
New Mexico Museum of Space History
This museum has a full-sized replica of SpaceShipOne, the private space plane that won the x-Prize in 2004. (The actual SpaceShipOne can be seen at the National Air & Space Museum.) The museum also has space suits and other flown items. It is in Alamogordo, NM Phone: 505-437-2840 -
New York Hall of Science
In Queens, New York (one of New York City’s boroughs), you can climb into a Mercury capsule mock-up (Glenn’s Friendship 7). Or you can look at two spectacular rockets: a genuine Atlas rocket with a replica Mercury capsule on top, and a Gemini-Titan (the Titan II rocket is real and the Gemini capsule is a [...] -
PHM Planetarium and Air & Space Museum
This little-known museum is in Mishawaka, IN. It has a surprising collection. They have 44 items on loan from National Air & Space and 5 from the Johnson Space Center. This includes the ALSEP package of lunar experiments, which was ready for the (unflown) Apollo 18 mission. They’ve got a nice collection of spacecraft models, [...] -
San Diego Air & Space
Don’t miss the Apollo 9 command module in the rotunda! And then there’s the Wally Schirra Gallery—with full-size reproductions of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. (Schirra was the only person to fly all three.) Location: 2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101. Telephone: (619) 234-8291 -
Science Museum London
With the added bonus of free admission, this is not to be missed when you’re in London! The big draw: the Apollo 10 command module “Charlie Brown”. Call ahead: 0870 870 4868 (outside the UK: 0044 870 870 4868) before coming to the Museum.
