Where can I see an Apollo spacecraft?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 5 Aug, 2023
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Evergreen Museum, Oregon
The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville Oregon US has several items related to Apollo missions.
Their Space Flight exhibits page lists:
- Boosters
- Rocketdyne H-1 Rocket Engine Used on the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1b boosters
- Pratt & Whitney RL-10 Rocket Engine. Utilized in the upper stage of the Saturn I.
- Rocketdyne J-2 Rocket Engine. One of the critical components of the Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon.
- Spacecraft
- Mercury Space Capsule (on loan)
- Lunar Roving Vehicle (Replica)
- Apollo Lunar Module Replica
- Apollo Command Module Replica
- Gemini Spacecraft (Replica)
- Saturn V Instrument Unit
Plus Soviet items: Sputnik Replica, Lunokhod 2 Replica, Foton 6 Capsule (an unmanned version of the Vostok capsule used to launch Yuri Gargarin).
Add to that Space Museum their Aviation Museum, with the actual Spruce Goose, other interesting planes (many in working condition!), and you have a memorable place to visit.
Field Guide to American Spacecraft is a great resource for this. There are many, many spacecraft in various museums, and quite a few of the test modules and mockups have been restored to better condition than they started, so that they can be display pieces.
The spacecraft in Europe are:
- A Gemini test vehicle at the National Museum of Scotland.
- Apollo 10 command module at the Science Museum in London.
The museum for all things space, including just so, SO much from Apollo and other missions – is the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Highly recommend it!
Even just seeing their "rocket garden" is incredible, but all the Apollo stuff, including a GIGANTIC Saturn V rocket you can walk under as it hangs horizontally in a large hanger is amazing. Go to the actual Apollo moon landing control room. And see the Shuttle pads, Vehicle Assembly Building (4th largest in world by volume), and even meet past astronauts.
Now as for your specific question, you’d go to the building with the Saturn V rocket called the Apollo / Saturn V center. In addition to the rocket, there’s the Apollo 14 command module, an unused service module and an unused Lunar module.
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The capsules from Soyuz – Apollo flight used to be and the Apollo 11 command module is at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
A quick search also gives a list of all remaining Apollo spacecraft and their locations based on that there is only one in Europe in London.
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