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Ian Limbrey
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posted 09-11-2015 11:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ian Limbrey   Click Here to Email Ian Limbrey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Visited Science Museum, London yesterday and again very disappointed with the 'Space Exploration' zone!

Nothing has changed there for years and the exhibits such as a J-2 engine might as well be an exhibit on a mantel piece (albeit a rather large one). The Apollo 10 capsule (which they have been exhibiting for nearly 40 years) is placed some way further down the corridor and you have to walk past Stevenson's 'Rocket' (world's first steam train engine) to see it. The fact it stands as the fastest manned vehicle of any sort is not highlighted in a big way and I find the museum very frustrating.

They do have a good replica of a LEM but I would be interested in other people's comments if they have visited the London Science Museum!

Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-11-2015 12:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Unfortunately, your visit was a week too early for the opening of Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age, billed by the museum as the "the most significant collection of Russian spacecraft and artifacts ever to be shown in the UK."

Ian Limbrey
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posted 09-11-2015 12:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ian Limbrey   Click Here to Email Ian Limbrey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's the main reason I went yesterday to purchase a couple of tickets for the opening of the Cosmonaut Exhibition on the 18th. I had a look around at the mainstay of the Space Exploration Zone (which has not changed in years) and felt it needed to be enhanced with information technology so that the younger generation could appreciate what they are looking at. I found the displays to be too stagnant!

onesmallstep
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posted 09-11-2015 03:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hopefully, the upcoming Russian space exhibition and Tim Peake's ISS expedition will kindle some desire to update the gallery.

robert_l
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posted 09-15-2015 07:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for robert_l   Click Here to Email robert_l     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was disappointed on my last visit to see a photograph of the Earth from Apollo 10 but no pictures of the moon.

tetrox
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posted 09-15-2015 11:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for tetrox   Click Here to Email tetrox     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I also have found the gallery dry and unchanging. I'm not sure that removing the Apollo 10 command module has helped and I'm amazed by the number who walk by it in its new position, not realizing its significance.

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