I had seen a Flickr album of 300 or so images which revealed what seemed to be a huge collection, but this video shows that it is even larger than I had thought. So large that artifacts (including a lunar surface-flown item) are even displayed in the restrooms!

I got to Visit Steve Jurvetson's private museum of spaceflight hardware. He's a Silicon Valley investor whose managed to assemble one of the best space museums with items from Goddard through Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle and even parts of SpaceX launch vehicles. He has managed to acquire things that flew to the moon on every Apollo mission.

This was just 2 hours of us looking at things and Steve enthusiastically explaining the history of things while I tried to capture the tour on my phone.

Scott Manley is a great youtuber, by the way. He knows his stuff and he gets the proper images to illustrate, many of which I didn't know. His scripts and delivery are refreshingly informal, and passionate.

He's interested in the "new" stuff and also the classics of astronautics history. Like Tim "Everyday Astronaut" Dodd, he has put out whole series of videos about deserving topics, such as the complete history of rocket families.

He's an advanced player of the Kerbal Space flight and design simulator, for those who dig such video games.

Continuing the tour of Steve Jurvetson's collection, starting out with a panel ejected from SpaceX's first flight of crew dragon with humans on board. This covered the parachute during launch and reentry, and it was discarded during descent so the parachutes could deploy. It also has an interesting story regarding the legality of recovering and salvaging rocket parts, which technically remain the property of the builder even if they as lost far outside territorial waters.

And that's just the start, there are lots of panels from the US and Soviet space programs,