This past week, we took the family to the Museum of Flight south of Seattle, to see the Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission exhibit, featuring the actual command module from the Apollo 11 mission. We spent the entire day at the museum, but still haven't seen some significant portions of it -- there's an entire section across the street that we never made it to.
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| Moon globe is globe of moon |
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| Model of the moon rover |
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| I thought the structure of the tires was pretty interesting -- a wire mesh over a ribbed structure. |
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| Liberty Bell model |
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| All the BUTTONS! |
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| Hard to see from this picture, but the center top button has handwritten "Spare" |
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| Status buttons for the go/no go signals |
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| I have not read about these ladies yet, but it's now on my to-do list! |
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| Model engine from a Saturn V rocket |
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| John Young's spacesuit |
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| This is a switch on the life support backpacks astronauts wore for excursions |
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| Looking through the door of the command module |
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| Burnination! |
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| Survival kit |
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| This was very cool -- on the right is an unused heat shield tile, and on the left is a used one. The lighting in this part of the exhibit was terrible, so please pardon the quality :( |
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| Oz was excited to see this -- the largest piece of space rock brought back from the moon |
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| Just outside of the exhibit is a kids area, with a ton of cool features, including this set of play consoles. |
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| Just sitting down at the flight director's console... |
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| One of the other cool features was this lunar module game -- you have to land it on the moon! The husband and Saffron crashed theirs into the surface, while I sent mine into space. Whoops! |
I do actually have a ton more photos to post, but I'm going to hang on to the next set and post them next week -- from the WWI and WWII exhibits, as well as the main room.
