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Johnson Space Center Exhibits |

Johnson Space Center Interior |

Model of the International
Space Station |

Space Shuttle Adventure Mockup |

Space Shuttle Flight Deck |

Space Shuttle Landing Gear |

Space Shuttle Main Engine |

Space Shuttle Main Engine |

Wind-Tunnel Model |
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Astronaut Gallery |
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Memorial to the crew of the Columbia, STS-107, lost on February 1,
2003 |

Mission Patch for Columbia's last mission |
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Starship Gallery |

Lunar Module (LM) |

Lunar Module (LM) |

Mercury - Faith 7, flown by Gordon
Cooper on May 15-16, 1963 |

Gemini IV, flown by
James A.
McDivitt and Edward H. White II
on June 3-7, 1965, during which White performed America's
first spacewalk |

Apollo 17 Command Module (CM) America, flown by
Eugene A.
Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt on the last (so far)
American lunar mission |

Interior and hatch of the Apollo 17 CM |

Side view of the Apollo 17 CM |

Heat shield of the Apollo 17 CM |

Lunar Surface Diorama |

Lunar Rover (LRV) Training Vehicle |

Lunar Samples Vault |

Moon Rocks |

Composition of the Lunar Soil |

Elements on the Moon |
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Space Vehicle Mockup Facility
(SVMF) |

Full-size Shuttle mockup |

Multipurpose Remote Manipulator Development Facility (MRMDF) |
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Rocket Park |
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Little Joe II launch vehicle and boilerplate Command Module and
Lunar Escape System (BP22), used to test transonic and
high-altitude abort maneuvers for the Apollo program |

Mercury-Redstone (MR7) - vehicles like this one were used during
the first two manned American spaceflights |

Saturn V - this multistage rocket was
used to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon (1968-1972).
This is the first stage (S-IC) of the vehicle, consisting of five F-1
engines and tanks of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
Once the fuel in the first stage was gone, it was jettisoned, leaving
the second stage engines free to ignite
This particular Saturn was intended to launch the planned Apollo
18 mission, but the mission was cancelled when the funding for the Apollo
program was cut. |

F-1 Engine - each of these five engines delivered a thrust of about
1.5 million pounds, and ran for about 2.5 minutes, lifting the Saturn to
an altitude of about 41 miles at a speed of 6000 miles per hour |

F-1 Engine interior |

F-1 Engines on the S-IC |

J-2 Engine - these engines, each of which delivered a thrust of
about 200,000 pounds, were used on the S-II second stage and the S-IVB
third stage of the Saturn rocket. |

J-2 Engines - A cluster of five of these engines on the S-II second
stage carried the Saturn V to an altitude of 108 miles at 17,400 miles per
hour. The S-IVB third stage had one of these engines, which
propelled the Apollo stack into Earth orbit, and then into a course for
the Moon at 24,900 miles per hour. |

The cylinder at the top of the Saturn V is the Launch Escape System (LES);
in the event of an emergency, the LES rocket would yank the Command Module
away from the Saturn, allowing the astronauts to escape. |

The Saturn V rocket was 363 feet long and weighed 3000 tons. |

Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM) - the Command Module (CM, the
cone at the top) housed the three astronauts during their trip to and from
the Moon. The Service Module (SM) contained the oxygen tanks and
other equipment needed during the voyage; a rocket at the rear was used to
break the CSM out of lunar orbit at return it to Earth. |

Spacecraft-Lunar Adapter (SLA) and Instrument Unit (IU) - the SLA housed
the Lunar Module (LM) during the launch; once the CSM separated from the
rest of the Saturn, the panels were jettisoned and the CSM turned around
to dock with the LM before proceeding to the Moon. The IU contained navigation and guidance
instruments for the rocket. |

S-IVB Third Stage, Spacecraft-Lunar Adapter, and Command and Service
Modules |

S-II Second Stage |

S-IC First Stage |

S-IC First Stage and F-1 Engines |