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[dvandorn]

A note in another thread brought me to wonder how many of us have been to various sites that are significant in the history (or ongoing prosecution) of space flight.

I'll start off. I've been to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (many times), and to the Garber restoration facility of NASM in Silver Hill, Maryland.

I've been to the Kennedy Space Center twice. The second time, there was a Shuttle on the pad. The first time, there was a Saturn IB with an Apollo spacecraft out on Pad 39B; Pad 39A was in the process of being reconstructed. (That ought to let people isolate that timeframe within no more than a year or so...)

I've been to the Johnson Space Center once. To give you a clue as to the timeframe, the MOCR wasn't in use (i.e., no flights were active), but instead of a TELMU console, there was an EGIL console. (Again, that ought to bring the timeframe into perspective, as well.)

That's about it for me in terms of visiting famous space-related places. How about y'all?

-the other Doug

[djellison]

I've been to the old rocket testing site on the Isle of Wight
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/mah...Rockettest1.jpg

The National Space Centre here in Leicester where Beagle 2 was operated until it's demise, and they have a Thor-Able and a Blue Streak ( I think) rocket, and one of only two complete Soyuz outside of the former Soviet Union.

Clean-rooms at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to see C1XS, an Xray spectrometer going onboard Chandaraayaan (enough A's in there?) -1

ESOC in Darmstadt, including a brief tour of the back-offices and control rooms for XMM-Newton, Cluster, Envisat and so on by David Southwood.

Of course, the Science Museum in London is good, as is the new Greenwich Observatory, and Isaac Newton's home, Woolsthorpe Manor (including Apple trees )

But I've not 'done' Florida, Houston or California - all of which have amazing things that I must see one day.