As you exit the Space Shuttle Experience, you are treated to a wonderful exhibit honoring all of the Space Shuttle Missions and crews.
Additionally, you are rewarded with a space-eye view of Earth.
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.
Apollo 11 crew.
Gateway, where the future of space exploration is on display.
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.
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.
SpaceX Falcon 9 First Stage or Booster rocket.
This particluar booster flew twice, and most notably as the side booster for the Falcon Heavy test flight in 2018.
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.
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.
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.
SpaceX Cargo Dragon COTS-2 Capsule.
Foreground: SpaceX Cargo Dragon COTS-2 Capsule. Background: Boeing CST-100 Starliner Mock-up Capsule.
Foreground: Boeing CST-100 Starliner Mock-up Capsule.
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.
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.
Left: Boeing CST-100 Starliner Spacesuit. Right: Sierra Space Dream Chaser.
Sierra Space Dream Chaser.
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