New Mexico Museum of Space History |
88310 Alamogordo, NM, United States of America (USA) (New Mexico ) |
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3198 State Rte 2001
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| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Air and Space (aviation, spaceflight etc.)
- Imax & "Maxi screen"
- Planetarium
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Status from 11/2022
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Adults: Museum only: $8; Films: $8; Planetarium Shows: $6; Planetary Combo (Museum + Planetarium ): $11; Galactic Combos (Museum + Film): $13, Universal Triple (Museum + Film + Planetarium): $16; Child: Museum: $6; Films: $6; Planetarium: $5 Planetary Combo: $7: Galactic Combos: $9; Universal Triple: $11 Senior: Museum: $7; Films: $7; Planetarium: $5 Planetary Combo: $9; Galactic Combos: $11; Universal Triple: $13 |
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| Homepage | www.nmspacemuseum.org | ||||||||
| Location / Directions |
The New Mexico Museum of Space History is located in southeastern New Mexico in the city of Alamogordo. DRIVING DIRECTIONS While driving through Alamogordo on Highway 54/70, look for the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped. Turn towards the mountains on Indian Wells Road and drive to the end of the road. At the T-intersection, turn left on Scenic Drive. The entrance to the New Mexico Museum of Space History is just on your right. |
| Description | Wikipedia: Main building The museum includes exhibits about the planets of the Solar System, space flight and the primates that were used in early space flight experiments conducted by the United States. The museum holds mock-ups and training units of many important space artifacts such as satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the Apollo Lunar Module (the originals are still in space or on the Moon). Outlying buildings The Clyde W. Tombaugh IMAX Theater and Planetarium has a projection dome that doubles as an IMAX screen and as a planetarium. IMAX-format films are screened daily. Outdoors A Little Joe II in the museum's rocket park. The John P. Stapp Air and Space Park is an outdoor exhibit area holding large artifacts, including the Sonic Wind No. 1 rocket sled ridden by Stapp. Ham, the chimpanzee who in 1961 became the first ape in space, is buried at the museum in front of the flagpoles. Ham died in 1983. The Astronaut Memorial Garden was created and dedicated to the memory of the astronauts who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the names of Columbia's astronauts were added to the memorial. The Daisy Track (named after the Daisy air rifle) was an air-powered sled track used to test safety devices, including the ancestor of the automobile seat belt. The museum rescued the pieces of the Daisy Track in 1986 and reassembled them as an outdoor exhibit in 2004. The Daisy Track exhibit is partly outside and partly inside a building that has some other exhibits. A temporary exhibit about the Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) is also housed in this building. |
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