Museum Of flight Part 4: Space Exhibits

Hi Everyone..!! Hope you had enjoyed reading part 3. In case, you had missed it go to the link below.

link: Part 3: Inside the museum

The following post contains the details of different space exhibits at the Museum of Flight.

Bridge connecting Museum of Flight main building to Space gallery

Visitors crossing the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial Bridge are immersed in a unique and pleasurable acoustic experience as they walk along the “aviation-like structure.” Commissioned by the Museum and created by local interdisciplinary artist and musician Paul Rucker, Trails of Vapor is a collection of sounds from milestone events in the history of aviation and space exploration and popular aviation-themed music broadcasted by speakers strategically placed along the length of the bridge.  

Lunar Rover

Apollo Command Module

ISS Destiny module replica

How it looks from ISS

This is the destiny module of the ISS. The screen below shows the view of the earth from the ISS Destiny module.

NASA Full Fuselage Trainer

 The FFT is a full-scale mockup of the space shuttle orbiter — without the wings. It was used as a test bed for upgrades to the shuttle fleet and for astronaut training such as extra-vehicular activity (EVA) and emergency egress. Built at Johnson Space Center in the 1970s, was the oldest mockup in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF). The FFT includes flight-quality systems, such as a payload bay, lighting and closed circuit TV (CCTV).

The Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF) was located inside Building 9 of Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It housed several space shuttle mockups, including the FFT, as well as mockups of every major pressurized module on the International Space Station. It was primarily used for astronaut training and systems familiarization.

Replica of Hubble's Telescope

Replica of Robotic Arm in Space 

Shuttle Trainer Cargo Bay

Soyuz Descent Module

This is the Soyuz descent module. In this the astronauts from the ISS descent back to the earth. The outer is burnt when the module is having the free fall in the Earth's atmosphere. This module is one of the 3 modules which are present in the upward journey to ISS. While the descent 2 modules get detached & are disintegrated in the space. Only this module carrying the astronauts descend.