Ever since I was a very little kid, I've been interested in the 60s Space Race. Now that I'm grown up and there are resources on the Internet documenting where these relics of the heroic age of manned space flight currently reside, I've had the opportunity to visit nearly all of them.
Along the way, I've also visited relics of several other heroic ages: World War II, the Cold War, the missile race.
And I've taken pictures of them all. Lots of pictures. So many pictures that I haven't yet found the time to post them all (the artifacts that I have posted can be accessed through the buttons above). There are literally tens of thousands of additional pictures (at least several thousand of which are good enough for other people to look at :-) which I will be sorting through and posting in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
Here, grouped by museum, are major artifacts which I've photographed, but have not yet posted. If you're particularly interested in one, drop me a line and I'll see about getting the photos of the artifact prepared for the web. Don't go crazy and request a whole bunch of photo sets, because I already have too many to prepare and I'll just wind up with too many to prepare all over again.
- Air Power Park, Hampton VA
- Mercury boilerplate
- Jupiter missile launch table
- Time capsule
- Air Zoo, Portage MI
- NERVA thrust chamber
- Mercury space suit
- Mark IV pressure suit
- Gemini boilerplate El Kabong
- Gemini crew trainerEl Kabong
- Pegasus micrometeorite experiement mockup
- 1/4 scale Saturn I Block I S-I model
- Large-scale Saturn I Block II S-IV model
- Skylab shower
- Skylab lower body negative pressure experiment
- P-47
- P-39
- Titan II Kick Motor
- Wago CG-4A glider
- Wildcat
- Hellcat
- Norden Bombsight
- Ha-1112
- XP-55 Ascender
- F-86
- Inflight refueling drogue
- Wildcat restoration:
- August 5, 2013
- August 7, 2013
- May 2014
- September 2015
- Aluminum Overcast, the EAA's flying B-17
- Barksdale Global Power Museum (formerly the 8th Air Force
Museum, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana
- C-47
- Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama
- USS Alabama above-decks photos
- USS Alabama below-decks photos
- USS Drum above-decks photos
- USS Drum below-decks photos
- Cernan Earth & Space Center, River Grove IL
- RL-10 rocket engine
- Gemini retro motor
- Cernan's Apollo 10 suit
- Cernan's Apollo 10 helmet
- Cernan's Apollo 10 gloves
- Apollo artifacts
- Champaign Aviation Museum, Urbana OH
- B-17 restoration
- B-17 console
- B-17 ball turret
- B-17 tail gunner position
- B-17 parts
- B-25
- B-25 interior
- C-47
- C-47 interior
- Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City NY
- Lunar Module LTA-1
- Misc Apollo artifacts
- EAA Aviation Museum, Oshkosh WI
- JN4-D Jenny
- Rutan Voyager
- Spirit of Flight
- B-25
- DeHavilland Mosquito
- Merlin Engine
- Sperry Ball Turret
- P-38
- F4U Corsair
- ME-109
- Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas TX
- Eisele's Apollo 7 suit and other suit artifacts
- Skylab lower body negative pressure chamber
- Skylab ergometer
- Misc Apollo artifacts
- Fuddy Duddy, flying B-17
- Glenn Research Center, Cleveland OH
- Apollo A7L suit
- Shuttle suit mockup
- Sokol suit
- Skylab food display
- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD
- Apollo boilerplate
- Explorer XXXIII
- Centrifuge
- Acoustic test chamber
- Grissom Memorial, Mitchell IN
- Grissom's Gemini suit
- Post-renovation photos
- Apollo 1 glove molds
- Gemini 3 components
- Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston TX
- Mercury MA-2
- Gemini suit
- Apollo suits
- Apollo lunar surface tools
- Kansas Cosmosphere, Hutchinson KS
- Lunar Module mockup
- Walther HWK 109-509A-1 (Me-163 Komet) Engine
- Sonic Wind II Rocket Sled
- Display of the first satellites, Sputniks 1 and 2 and Explorer I
- Jupiter-C Nosecones
- Pioneer 4 satellite
- Mercury MA-1
- Shirra's Mercury training suit
- Vostok
- Vostok (SK-1) suit
- Voskhod Berkut Suit
- Project Mercury horizon scanner
- Gemini drogue chute
- Saturn V APS
- Cut-away PLSS
- Saturn IB fin
- Apollo 17 LRV fenders
- Surveyor Scoop
- Cut-away A7L suit
- Kennedy Space Center
- Mercury Redstones (Pass and Identification Building, Gate 2)
- J-2 engine
- Mercury Control interior
- Cooper's Mercury Suit
- Scott's 8 Gemini Suit
- LM trainer
- LRV 1-G trainer
- Astronaut van
- "Then and Now" tour stops
- "Behind the Scenes" tour stops
- LC-39
- Liberty Bell 7 traveling tour stops
- Grissom's Mercury gloves
- Apollo 1 suit
- Jim Lewis recovery helicopter flight suit
- Mark Wells Collection
- H-1 gas generator
- Saturn IU LVDC page card
- Saturn IU LVDC computer module
- SE-6 thruster
- SE-7 thruster
- SE-8 thruster
- Atlast inducer impellers
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- J-2 rocket engine LOX turbopump
- J-2 rocket engine fuel (LH2) turbopump
- Ares I upper stage mockup
- F-1 engine rotating fixture
- Jupiter launcher table
- Former J-2 Test Stand flame bucket
- SLS Structural Test Stand construction progress
- SSME combustion chamber
- Redstone missile by PEO Aviation
- AMC static displays
- PEO Missiles and Space static displays
- Friction stir welding machines
- Michigan Space & Science Center, Jackson MI
- Astronaut Memorial
- PLSS
- Surveyor model
- McDivitt's Apollo 9 suit
- Gemini simulator
- Mercury space suit
- Sokol space suit
- Misc Apollo artifacts
- Moon rock
- Museum Aviation, Warner-Robins GA
- A-10
- GAU-8 Avenger A-10 gun
- U-2 engine
- B-29
- Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago IL
- Gemini mockup
- RL-10 engine
- Mission Control console
- German U-boat U-505
- National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC
- Scott's Apollo 15 suit
- Apollo command module main display (control panel)
- Apollo fuel cell
- Cernan's Apollo 17 suit
- Lunar Roving Vehicle
- Project Mercury suit
- Project Gemini suit
- Apollo A7L suit
- Mercury retrorocket
- Gemini retrorocket
- ASTP trees
- National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB OH
- Mercury S/C #17
- LR-87 engine
- X-1B
- X-24A
- X-24B
- Stargazer gondola
- B-29 Bock's Car
- Atomic bomb Little Boy replica
- Atomic bomb Fat Man replica
- P-61
- P-61 interior
- C-46
- ME-262
- Waco CG-4A glider
- B-26
- P-51
- DeHavilland Mosquito
- P-47
- B-24 Strawberry Bitch
- B-24 interior Strawberry Bitch
- Lady Be Good artifacts
- P-82 twin Mustang
- B-29 walk-through
- F-86
- B-2
- F-117A
- B-36
- B-36 Boston camera
- XF-85 Goblin
- U-2
- B-52
- Sopwith Camel
- Nieuport 28
- JN-4D Jenny
- DeHavilland DH-4
- C-130 Hercules
- Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola FL
- Cernan's Apollo 17 suit
- XN-13 pressure suit
- XN-17 pressure suit
- Mecury model
- Lunar Roving Vehicle model
- PB4Y-2 (Naval B-24)
- PBJ-1 (Naval B-25)
- S-58 helicopter
- Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum, Wapakoneta, OH
- F5D Skylancer
- Gemini mockup
- Apollo mockup
- Apollo artifacts
- Apollo lunar surface diorama
- Moon rock
- Science Museum Oklahoma (formerly the Omniplex), Oklahoma City
OK
- SPS engine
- Apollo Command Module trainer
- Apollo fuel cell
- Apollo interial measurement unit
- Gemini suit
- Mercury suit
- LR-87 engines
- First satellites replicas
- Space Center Houston, Houston TX
- S-IC transporter
- Skylab trainer
- LM trainer
- Lunar surface diorama
- Misc Apollo artifacts
- Apollo fuel cell
- St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis MO
- Mercury Atenna Fairing
- Mercury Couch
- Mercury Heatshield Samples
- Gemini Heatshield Samples
- Stafford Air & Space Museum, Weatherford OK
- Skylab in-flight garment
- Stafford's Apollo 10 suit
- V-2 engine
- SPS engine
- Apollo fuel cell
- Apollo oxygen tank
- Mission Control console
- Stafford's Gemini suit
- Misc Apollo artifacts
- Misc Gemini artifacts
- Agena engine
- F-1 rocket engine nozzle extension handling fixture
- J-2 rocket engine transporation dolly
- Stennis Space Center, Hancock County MS
- Haise's Apollo 13 suit
- Strategic Air & Space Museum, Ashland NE
- Apollo fuel cell
- B-29
- Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City OK
- A-7D Corsair II
- F-105D Thunderchief
- EA-6B Prowler
- C-135 Stratolifter
- F-4D Phantom II
- B-1B Lancer
- B-52 Stratofortress
- AGM-129
- B-29 Superfortress
- C-47 Skytrain
- B-47 Stratojet
- Udvar-Hazy Center
- SA-5 camera capsule
- SPS engine
- Gemini paraglider
- Glenn's Mercury couch
- Saturn V Instrument Unit
- Apollo Telescope Mount hardware
- Spacelab
- TDRS satellite
- Goddard rocket engine
- XLR-87 Titan I engine
- Me 163 Komet
- Bell UH-1H Huey
- Northrop N-1M
- P-61 Black Widow
- Grumman Hellcat
- B-29 Enola Gay
- P-47
- Boeing 307 Stratoliner
- Concord
- Gossamer Albatross
- Global Flyer
- Rickenbacker Uniform
- University of Alabama at Huntsville Archives, Huntsville AL
- J-2 rocket engine injector section
- J-2 rocket engine fuel pump turbine
- J-2 rocket engine fuel pump stator
- J-2 rocket engine fuel turbine manifold
- Skylab shoe prototype
- US Space & Rocket Center
- S-IC Y-ring
- LM lunar surface sensing probe
- LM landing gear strut
- H-1 engine propellant valves
- SPS engine
- Thrusters
- Swing arm 8
- Juno I apex determiner
- Saturn V range safety decoder
- S-IVB APS ullage engine
- Apollo probe and drogue
- Gemini AMU
- Apollo fuel cell
- Apollo suit parts
- Gemini ingress/egress trainer
- Explorer I launch console
- MOLAB
- Lunar Module mockup
- Centaur G-Prime
- A-12 Oxcart
- Skylab trainer
- Mind of Saturn Instrument Unit exhibit
- Juno I/Jupiter-C upper stages
- Chimp Couch
- Skylab food
- Saturn I boattail interior
- Gemini-Titan 5 first stage tank
- Saturn IB fine
- F-1 transportation dolly
- Virginia Air & Space Museum
- Mercury Little Joe 5A