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Topic: UK space craft exhibits
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zoomeruk
Member Posts: 67
From: England
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 07-03-2001 04:35 AM
   
Now that the LEicester space center has opened, it got me thinking. Where else around the UK are there spacecraft related exhibits open to view to we poor space starved collectors/fans.
1) Apollo 10 command module on display at the London science museum.
2) The Battery above the 'Needles' on the Isle of Wight, where us Brits tested our early rocket motors. http://www.geocities.com/teammanley/Solent/NeedlesSpace.htm
I don't know if there is much to see, I'm visiting in August and let you know. Paul |
Matt T
Member Posts: 1368
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 07-03-2001 07:23 AM
Not really a spaceship but certainly of interest to rocket-heads is a test V1 'doodlebug' rocket complete with cockpit that was flown by Hannah Reich (I think I have the name right). I saw it when I was about ten at an airfield in Kent in the UK, unfortunately I can't remember which one. It's a name like Hendon, Headcote, Headley something like that. It was/is an active airstrip, ring any bells with anyone else?
Not terribly helpful I know but maybe someone else knows where I mean.
Cheers,
Matt |
zoomeruk
Member Posts: 67
From: England
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 07-03-2001 12:23 PM
Thanks Matt. After doing a bit of researth I think you are refering to Headcorn aerodrome and the Lashenden museum.
http://freespace.virgin.net/ian.bayley/places/headcorn/Museum.html I do not live too far from there but have never been.
For early military rocketry, London also has a good exhibit at the Imperial war museum. Anyone else have anymore ideas. |
Matt T
Member Posts: 1368
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 07-03-2001 12:37 PM
Headcorn, that's the one!
It's mostly Battle of Britain related stuff (I recall an enormous one-ton German bomb, and an oak tree trunk with a chunk of shrapnel buried deep within it). I think I went a few times, and was lucky enough once to see them fire up one of the V1's cluster of rockets/engines (I'm no expert). A four or five foot sheet of flame was blasting out of the back, very impressive to my younger self.
It was 20 years ago (oh my god, it actually was) so things may have changed. Probably worth a visit though.
Cheers,
Matt |
Jacqueline
Member Posts: 344
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-03-2001 03:08 PM
There is a peice of moon rock in the Cardiff museum (under the Geology section). Thats about it for Wales! Of course there is my display cabinet in the sitting room!Jacqueline |
Keith Barber
Member Posts: 326
From: Warwickshire
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 08-03-2001 12:54 PM
Went to the Leicester-national space centre today,more designed for a hands on children experience which is good, has a Soyuz capsule in the enterance, a blue streak and Thor Able Rocket in a bubble tower attached to the main building.Not alot on the US space-race to the moon(my favourite) apart from a tv set into a plastic mount as the moon showing clips of the Apollo missions but has a nice piece of moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission sadly inclosed in a 2" approx thick glass case(locked) set into a model of the moon ,has a good laser show but the London Planetarium is a leap ahead. Helen Sharman`s spacesuit is in a display along with a Soyuz spacesuit and a mock shuttle room!(sleeping,shower,experiments rolled in one),lots of children interactive-feel,look and play displays, a fun Mercury space capsule.Had fun with my children, a OK day but would not go back unless I had the key to the moon display!. | |
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