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Topic: Space sights and attractions in Chicago
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spaceuk
Member Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 07-14-2003 04:27 PM
  
I know Adler Planetarium is in Chicago, Illinois, but what other space museums and sights can one visit there? |
rjurek349
Member Posts: 1190
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 07-14-2003 04:39 PM
As a native of the area there are a couple of things you can do. You should go to the Museum of Science and Industry. They have the Apollo 8 command module, flown items from Jim Lovell and Frank Borman on diplay, Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 Mercury capsule, and a moon rock from Apollo 17. It's all in the Henry Crown Space Center and Omnimax Theater. Also, you might want to try the Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College. I haven't been, so not sure what is on display. I'd suggest a call there, first. Any one else have any suggestions? |
rjurek349
Member Posts: 1190
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 07-14-2003 04:43 PM
Wow. Looks like there are a number of exhibits at the Cernan Center, including his Apollo 10 spacesuit. Looks like I need to plan a weekend getaway myself. |
Rodina
Member Posts: 836
From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 07-14-2003 04:55 PM
Also, not strictly space — but the Museum of Science and Industry in Hyde Park (adjacent to the University of Chicago) has some great exhibits, including an entire U-Boat. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 07-17-2003 08:44 PM
Bellwood, Illinois is Cernan's hometown, there is a sign at the "entrance" ways, buy I never tried to find anything else.Oh, and that one time I finally got to shake Buzz Aldrin's hand in Chicago he was there to dedicate a moon rock at the Tribune Building, just north of downtown. They probably still have it, but that is a guess, at least if you go to the Tribune building, you can tour there and they have bits of famous buildings stuck in the outside walls you can see and touch. |
spaceuk
Member Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 07-19-2003 08:52 AM
I'd forgotten about the moon rock fragment inside Tribune Building. Must see that.I offered them part of "Darwin's Millennium Space Rock" - the rock that I flew to Mir space station to commemorate Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. I had a reply that said it was going up to the president of the Tribune but never heard more from them. |
denali414
Member Posts: 593
From: Raleigh, NC
Registered: Aug 2017
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posted 01-10-2019 09:14 AM
Just up in Chicago for the Bears playoff game and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has an Apollo 17 rock (Glass display of Apollo 17 Lunar Sample 79155,10) on display (along with a Mercury capsule and some real good space displays).Editor's note: Threads merged. |
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