From: roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: What's on display in the National Air & Space Museum
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:51:08 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
	formerly National Bureau of Standards


After leaving the Rover Expo, I went to the National Air & Space Museum,
and attempted to carry out a long-planned project - going through the
museum, and trying to catalog all the spacecraft, rockets, and well-known
airplanes there. This is more difficult than one would think, because
many of the displays are in out-of-the-way places. Most of the displays
are aircraft, so I got only slight coverage of them. I might as well
post what I got, then later on I will try to go back with a printout,
so I can add things I missed, and correct any errors. I'd like to add some
more of the advanced aircraft, and some of the important spacecraft parts
such as guidance computers and rocket engines.

Among the spacecraft and rockets, many are working models that were never
used, others were built for ground tests (presumably mostly or entirely
functional), and others are reconstructed from parts of test vehicles
or flown vehicles. There are also many models (full-scale or smaller),
and some engineering test devices which illustrate the size and configuration
of the real devices. I'll try to include all the documentation I wrote.
I'm also including some other displays of general interest.

The identification of each display by type should be useful in resolving
future questions on the subject. Perhaps someone could cross-correlate this
list with the previously-posted list on where space hardware is displayed.

.......................


Aerobee sounding rocket - original

Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia - original

Apollo Lunar Module LM-2 - original, intended for an unmanned test flight,
 but not used because the first lunar module unmanned test flight was
 a success - retired for use in ground tests

Apollo command module used in the Skylab 4 mission - original

Apollo-Soyuz test project - used to test docking adapter - full-scale units

Ariane 44LP rocket - 1/15 scale model

Atlas Centaur rocket - 1/15 scale model

Bell X-1 - first airplane to break the sound barrier - original

Delta 3914 rocket - 1/15 scale model

Explorer I satellite - first US satellite - replica

GOES satellite - full scale model

Gemini 4 capsule - original

Gemini 7 capsule - original

Goddard liquid-fueled rockets - models of two, including the first flown
 (one of the two weighed more fully fueled than the thrust of the rocket -
 it sat on the launch pad until part of the fuel had been burned)

Gossamer Condor - human-powered aircraft - original

Hubble Space Telescope structural dynamic test vehicle - full size

ITOS weather satellite - ground engineering test satellite

Intelsat VI communications satellite - 1/12 scale model

Japanese H-II rocket - 1/15 scale model

Jupiter C rocket - original

Lunar Orbiter spacecraft - used for ground tests

Lunar Rover - qualification test vehicle (1 of 8, built by Boeing before
 building the three flight vehicles - I think another one is at KSC)

Mariner 10 spacecraft - flight-qualified original

Mariner 2 spacecraft - replica

Mercury Freedom 7 capsule - original

Mercury capsule Friendship 7 - original

Minuteman III rocket - original

Northrop M2-F3 lifting body - original

Pershing II missile - US - training version

Pioneer 10 spacecraft - prototype

Ranger spacecraft - replica of Rangers 7,8,9, made of parts of Ranger test 
 vehicles

SS-20 missile - Soviet - training version

Saturn V aft end - (1/4 with two mirrors at right angles to make it look
 full size, with an F-1 engine - body of rocket is a model)

Saturn V rocket model - small

Scout D rocket - original

Skylab (Orbital Workshop, solar array, and Multiple Docking Adapter) - the
 second Skylab, built as a backup, but never launched because the first
 Skylab accomplished the mission goals

Space Shuttle Columbia - 1/15 scale model

Space Station Freedom model - small

Spacelab - 1/15 scale model

Spirit of St. Louis - first nonstop transatlantic flight - original

Sputnik I - USSR - first satellite - replica

Surveyor spacecraft - used for ground tests

TDRS geosynchronous data relay satellite - full-size model

TIROS weather satellite - ground engineering test satellite

Titan Centaur rocket - 1/15 scale model

Tsiolkovsky - Russian space pioneer - big display 

V-1 German WWII "buzz bomb" - original

V-2 German WWII missile - original

Vanguard I satellite - original backup

Vanguard launch vehicle - original

Viking Mars lander - 3rd working vehicle, used for simulations on Earth to
 support the two landers that landed on Mars

Viking rocket - partial replica, made with parts of flown vehicles

Voyager aircraft (flew around the world nonstop without refueling) - original

Voyager interplanetary space probe - full-scale replica, parts of which were
 used for pre-launch engineering tests
 [so let's hear no more about "the third Voyager hanging in the Air & Space
 museum" :-) ]

WAC-Corporal rocket - original

Wright Brothers' Flyer - first powered airplane - original

X-15 rocket plane - original (didn't say which one)

X-29 forward-swept wing aircraft - full-scale fiberglas mockup

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov