page_title: Virginia Air and Space Center
section_title: Space Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Virginia Air and Space Center / Collection / Space Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Apollo 12 Command Module in Virginia Air &amp; Space Center, Hampton, VA
context_page_description: The Virginia Air and Space Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base. The museum also features an IMAX digital theater and offers summer aeronautic- and space-themed camps for children.
  The museum includes the Apollo 12 Command Module Yankee Clipper.
context_section_description: Visitors enter through a room which simulates a manned launch to Mars, telling the story of a rendezvous with a Mars Transit Vehicle and arrival at the planet where doors open up into the gallery.
  Apollo 12 Command Module Yankee Clipper, which completed 45 lunar orbits in 1971
  Apollo Lunar Excursion Module Simulator (LEMS), suspended by a huge gantry and used by astronauts at the Langley Research Center to practice landing on the lunar surface
  Viking Lander full-scale replica
  Gemini 10 hatch
  Mercury XIV spacecraft
  Sounding rockets similar to those launched at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility 90 miles north.
  Lunar Orbiter full-scale replica
  Rocks from Mars and the Moon
  Lunar Landing simulator
caption: The Apollo 12 Command Module Yankee Clipper
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