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Topic: Alternate venues for space artifacts
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Ray Katz
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Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 01-05-2007 03:43 PM
   
Other than the traditional air & space museums and science museums, what other venues have you seen display space artifacts? The oddest I know of is Tony Bartlett's Exploratory, which seems to be an interactive science/amusement park...The Lyndon Johnson Library Museum has some historic space items on display, including drafts of a speech by Johnson in 1958 about how to catch up to the Soviets. And they're planning a bigger exhibit on space in 2008. Where else have you seen interesting space stuff? ---
Museum of Space Travel
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-05-2007 06:03 PM
There is a neutral buoyancy mock-up of an Apollo command module on display in the courtyard of an office building across the street from Johnson Space Center's main entrance on NASA Parkway.Both Frenchie's restaurant and the Outpost in Houston have wall-to-wall galleries of astronaut autographs. (In fact, most Clear Lake-area restaurants and many businesses have at least one astronaut autograph hanging on the wall, if not a presentation NASA made to local companies that supported the space agency after the loss of Columbia.) |
RMH
Member Posts: 577
From: Ohio
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 01-06-2007 04:40 PM
We had a temporary (traveling) display at our local art museum called "Aerospace Design: The Art of Engineering from NASA's Aeronautical Research." It was a nice collection of wind tunnel models displayed as art. These were the actual models that were used by NASA and others for wind tunnel testing. The displays included a North American X-15, Space Shuttle, and a Bell X-1. I think the age of the models ranged from the 1950's to the 1990's. It was a neat way to see these and to also view them in a different way. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 01-19-2007 01:41 PM
(in your site's listing, you left out, for Ohio, the fantastic National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton)In Guantanamo, Cuba, at one corner of the Park for the Revolution, lies an former garage which houses a Soyuz -- presumably Soyuz 38 which flew Cuba's Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez to Salyut 6 in 1980. |
Ray Katz
Member Posts: 145
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Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 01-19-2007 03:30 PM
Thanks! I've added the U.S. Air Force museum to the page... |
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