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Space Science

Air and Space Museum

The space sciences collection includes objects ranging from engineering models, components, and prototypes to mockups and models representing the full range of scientific activities performed on space vehicles, including both suborbital and orbital satellites, probes, and landers, as well as missions flown into orbits around other celestial bodies, including the moon, other planets, the Sun, and the Earth’s Lagrangian points.  Specific subject matter areas include but are not limited to astrophysics, biology, the earth sciences,  geophysics, planetary science, and solar physics.  Collections areas also include artifacts from the ground-based sciences that represent the intellectual and technical infrastructure within which the problems addressed by the space sciences are rationalized.


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Drawing, Comet Kohoutek

Drawing, Comet Kohoutek

Satellite, Explorer 46: Meteoroid Technology Satellite, Backup

Satellite, TRS II, Prototype

Satellite, ERS-17, Mock-up

Satellite, ERS-17, Parts

Satellite, Uhuru, Reconstructed Craft

Satellite, Uhuru, Solar Panels

Satellite, IMP-A, Engineering Model

Satellite, IMP-E, Test Unit

Heart Pacemaker

Satellite, Vanguard TV 3

Spectrometer, UV Absorption, Apollo-Soyuz Test Program - thermal mockup

Pioneer 10 / 11, reconstructed full-scale mock-up

Satellite, Explorer 9, Balloon Replica

Metal cylindrical trunk with cameras, high gain antenna, and solar panels

Lunar Probe, Ranger, Block III

Satellite, Explorer 40, Injun V

Metalized red and green balloon in a clear plastic cylinder.

Satellite, Explorer 39, Air Density

Antenna on white disc with an aluminum arm on the left that supports multiple instruments. A long magnetometer boom extends on the right over the exhibit space below.

Voyager Spacecraft Mock-up, Full Scale

Gold plated disc with etched designs on the surface. At top left is a circle depicting the record. The dashes along the outer edge, in binary code, show the proper rotational speed for playing the record.

Record, Cover, Voyager (Duplicate)

Record, Voyager, Sounds of Earth

Biomedical Experiment, Microscope Slides

Clock, Hydrogen Maser, Mass Measurement

Electronics, Vector Helium Magnetometer, Planetary Probe, Pioneer 10

Sensor, Vector Helium Magnetic, Planetary Probe, Pioneer 10

Receiver, Maser, Traveling Wave

Lander, Mars, Viking, Proof Test Article

Glassware, Nucleotide Experiment, Ponnamperuma

Camera, Television, Mariner 6 and 7

Satellite, Micrometeoroid Detection, Explorer 23

Model, Lunar Probe, Lunar Orbiter

Satellite, Pegasus B, Collecting Surfaces "Wing Section," Mock-up

Square, see-through container with multiple instruments inside labeled by function. The labels read Electrical Connections, Ion Source, Electric Sector, Mass Spectrometer, Magnetic Sector and Ion Pump, Electron Multiplier, Atmosphere Filter, Column, Gas Chromatograph, Effluent Splitter and Separator, Hydrogen Carrier Gas Tank, GC Vent, Atmospheric Inlet, Soil Loader and Soil Ovens, and Soil Inlet.

Planetary Probe, Viking, Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer

Camera, Television, Surveyor

Spectrometer, Infrared, Telescope Aiming Device, Skylab


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