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Robert Pearlman
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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force release
Space Shuttle Exhibit and STEM Learning Node to begin move to fourth building

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's Space Shuttle Exhibit and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Learning Node will soon be launched into the museum's new fourth building.

Turner Construction Company was recently awarded a $434,133 contract modification by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, to disassemble the Space Shuttle Exhibit and STEM Learning Node in the museum's third building and transport them to the fourth building, where they will be re-assembled. The Space Shuttle Exhibit and STEM Learning Node will re-open when the fourth building opens in June 2016.

Aircraft and exhibits located near the current exhibit in the Cold War Gallery, including the AC-130, EF-111A, F-111F and F-117A, will be unavailable starting Oct. 19, and the work to begin disassembling the Space Shuttle Exhibit and STEM Learning Node will start later this year.

The Space Shuttle Exhibit featuring NASA's first Crew Compartment Trainer and Teal Ruby satellite will be part of a new and expanded Space Gallery. The gallery will also include a massive Titan IVB space launch vehicle and satellite booster rocket that weighs 96 tons; Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft; and a range of other rockets, satellite launch vehicles, and space-related artifacts.

The current STEM Learning Node will be moved to the fourth building's new Global Reach Gallery, which will include select cargo aircraft such as the C-21A, C-82A, C-130E and C-141C Hanoi Taxi. The Air Force's airlift and aeromedical evacuation missions will also be explained in this gallery.

Future plans call for two new additional STEM Learning Nodes to be constructed in the fourth building with one located between the new Space and Research & Development Galleries and another in the new Presidential Gallery.

The $40.8 million fourth building is being privately financed by the Air Force Museum Foundation, a non-profit organization chartered to assist in the development and expansion of the museum's facilities.

Robert Pearlman
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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force update:
Museum restoration staff moved the NASA Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT) and the Teal Ruby satellite this week. The Space Shuttle Exhibit featuring NASA’s first Crew Compartment Trainer and Teal Ruby satellite will be part of a new and expanded Space Gallery. Plans call for the museum's new fourth building to open to the public in June 2016.

Here is a time-lapse of the CCT being moved into the fourth building.

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Here are a couple of images of the state of the trainer move from Oct. 24, 2015. The disassembly and move is actually a substantial project. Cost is almost half a million.

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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force update
The Space Shuttle Exhibit is being reassembled in the expanded Space Gallery in the new fourth building, which opens to the public in June 2016.

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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force video
Former astronaut Mark Brown spoke to us about his time with the Crew Compartment Trainer and the Space Shuttle Exhibit on display in the new fourth building.


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