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Topic: Viewing Apollo command modules on display
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MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 10-01-2014 09:57 AM
   
I was at the Astronaut Hall of Fame and the Saturn V Center yesterday and did not see Apollo 14. When I asked the receptionists, one of them had no clue what I was talking about and the other said they just get items loaned out and that item was taken back.Where is Apollo 14 now? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-01-2014 10:04 AM
To my knowledge, the Apollo 14 command module is still on display at the Apollo Saturn V Center in a room with other Apollo-era artifacts located just off the main hall. |
bwhite1976
Member Posts: 281
From: Belleville, IL
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 10-01-2014 12:24 PM
I visited the Saturn V museum in August of 2013 and Apollo 14 was in the exact place on the map Robert posted. I am sure someone has been there more recently who can confirm. It is displayed in another vault-like room, adjacent to the main hall where the Saturn V sits. My point is that it is not displayed out in the open. I have actually always wondered if that vault type room was there when they converted the building into the Saturn V museum or if it was built to house the moon rocks, suits, spacecraft that would be displayed in it? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-01-2014 12:32 PM
The building was designed and built as a museum to specifically display the Saturn V and its related exhibits.Prior to 2009, the room where the Apollo 14 command module is now displayed was used for hands-on educational exhibits focused on the future of spaceflight (one exhibit allowed guests to drive small rovers on a simulated Mars landscape). Prior to "Kitty Hawk" arriving, the room was outfitted with dehumidifiers and other environmental systems to allow for the command module to be exhibited without the need for a plexiglass cover. |
MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 10-01-2014 03:36 PM
Wow, the one room I did not go into. I thought it would be out in the open! I wonder if I can go back and say "hey, please let me in just to see Apollo 14!!"Thanks guys  |
Ade74
Member Posts: 47
From: Peterborough, England
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 10-02-2014 02:39 PM
I was there last week and Kitty Hawk was in the vault room as described. You get lost in your thoughts of where it has actually been! |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3208
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-02-2014 07:25 PM
The command module "Kitty Hawk" can be seen at this 2011 KSC event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission. |
MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 10-06-2014 10:25 AM
I still can't believe I didn't go in there. We were a little short on time and wanted to get back to see Atlantis and the Hall of Fame (we arrived at the Saturn V center at 3pm and the others closed at 5pm) so I did a quick walk around of the Saturn V. I walked past the vault like four times and for some reason that I still can't pinpoint, did not bother peeking in. Ugh, until next time (hopefully not another 8 years). |
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