Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting, thrilling, and people just flocked in to the museum to see it. In the 40 years since this building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over a thousand of them on display in our two locations
The moon. So its actually fairly flimsy in some areas. The legs are obviously strong and mount for the rocket engine is strong but the craft itself and particularly the crew module or crew cabin was really fairly spartan. It had two windows. Neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. Both of them were standing. They were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. It was not really designed for comfort. It was designed for the purpose of landing, giving the crew an exit so they could spend a couple of hours on the surface of the moon and then launching again along with their precious cargo of lunar soil and rocks to bring back home to demonstrate that they had been there and to have those materials for scientists to begin analyzing and better understand the moon. Its also amazing to think that the Computing Power required in that day to send these craft to the moon and pr
Take three months to start back in the old days. Even took two or three days when we first started doing it by air because they flew by day and then took the train at night and flew by day and took the train. So the range speed pay load and the capabilities and safety, safety is a really major portion of this entire program. Youre going to keep it for a few more minutes and then show our audience some of the artifacts and exhibits here at the museum but let me get a call joining us from oregon. Youre on the air. Oh, awesome. Its very nice to meet you, general. My question for you is actually a twopart question. One, how many exhibits are actually on display . And what is your favorite exhibit . We have 22 galleries. And the, probably, im not going to give you a number but its, ill say its more than 160 actual artifacts. Im talking about large artifacts. If we count the metals and the patches and some of the other smaller things, it gets into the thousands, actually. So, and i mentioned
For the lanning ding in the moo july of 1969, it had a companion spacecraft. The command module l aand the lr module carried kneel armstrong and Michael Colins and buzz aldrin to the moon. This lunar module is a module that never flew in space. It is a lunar model two thats intended to be used in the test flight. The test was cancelled and as unnecessary. It consists of two parts, the base which has the legs and, the rocket engine in it and then the oddly shaped top which is the crew cabin and the modular. This was attached to the command module from earth to lunar orbit. Once in lunar orbit. The two crew members would descend service where armstrong and colins it began to set down to surface. Forward, forward. Back lights. Andrew, stop. We are copying it down. Go ahead and land it. This was a thrilling moment in history. And, almost every body who was alive at that moment remember where they were. Whether they were watching it on television or their own house or if they were standing
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