From: lind@eng.umd.edu (Charles A. Lind)
Subject: Re: What's on display in the National Air & Space Museum
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 16:13:12 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: lind@valkyrie.eng.umd.edu


In article <9209051851.AA27439@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>, roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes:
>
>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)
	
	I believe it's number 1.  I had the opportunity to hear 
	A. Scott Crossfield speak at the NASM and I got the impression
	the X-15 hanging was the one he initially did the flying in.
>
>X-29 forward-swept wing aircraft - full-scale fiberglas mockup
>
>John Roberts
>roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
>

Charles Lind
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