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As you exit the Space Shuttle Experience, you are treated to a wonderful exhibit honoring all of the Space Shuttle Missions and crews.

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Additionally, you are rewarded with a space-eye view of Earth.

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An astronaut's view of the Space Shuttle Tunnel Adapter Truss Assembly (TATA). Used on 21 specific missions with external airlocks, the assembly provided a contingency to give astronauts access to the payload bay in event they needed to close the doors manually.

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Apollo 11 crew.

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Gateway, where the future of space exploration is on display.

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The Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat launches on a conventional rocket and expands to the size of a three-story building when in orbit.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 Upper Stage Rocket engine. "The RL10 has been the nation’s premier, high-performance launch vehicle upper-stage rocket engine for nearly 60 years," according to Eileen P. Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and Pesident.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 First Stage or Booster rocket.

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This particluar booster flew twice, and most notably as the side booster for the Falcon Heavy test flight in 2018.

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Launched in 2014, the Lockheed-Martin Orion EFT-1 flight Flown capsule is the first of NASA's Orion crew module to fly in space.

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Left: Another view of the Orion EFT-1 flight Flown Capsule. Right: Lockheed-Martin's Deep Space Habitat. It's a full-scale mock-up of what a habitat orbiting the Moon can look like.

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SpaceX Cargo Dragon COTS-2 Capsule. This particular Dragon was the first commercial spacecraft to deliver and return cargo from the International Space Station in 2012.

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SpaceX Cargo Dragon COTS-2 Capsule.

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Foreground: SpaceX Cargo Dragon COTS-2 Capsule. Background: Boeing CST-100 Starliner Mock-up Capsule.

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Foreground: Boeing CST-100 Starliner Mock-up Capsule.

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This Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner crew module is a mock-up created to test how the CST-100 capsule would function during a real mission. Used for hours of testing, the capsule or module can carry four or five astronauts and cargo.

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This is a full-size replica of Sierra Space Dream Chaser. The purpose of the craft is to perform cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station for NASA. It's a reusable space plane that can land on existing commercial runways.

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Left: Boeing CST-100 Starliner Spacesuit. Right: Sierra Space Dream Chaser.

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Sierra Space Dream Chaser.

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