Posts: 47 From: Greater Seattle, WA USA Registered: Mar 2011
posted 07-20-2018 05:54 PM
Politico has an interesting article on the updates to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and how they plan to start pushing to promote the history of the commercial space industry.
Locally for me in Seattle, the Museum of Flight has also pushed for the last few years to also go after this niche. Most of the existing space museums globally focus on the national space programs of their host nation.
Anyone have any input about this subject?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-24-2018 12:31 PM
As of today, probably the best collection of commercial spacecraft exhibits are at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex as part of the NASA Now + Next gallery.
It is the only venue where you can see a flown SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule on display, as well as Starliner development and test articles, among other vehicles and rocket exhibits.
isaacada1 Member
Posts: 47 From: Greater Seattle, WA USA Registered: Mar 2011
posted 08-22-2018 09:33 PM
The Museum of Flight (MoF) in Seattle now has a podcast. The latest episode is on Preserving the Future History of Space. In it, the host interviews Geoff Nunn, the MoF Adjunct Curator for Space History about what the future holds for preserving commercial space artifacts.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-24-2018 05:45 AM
This video, from the Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace Conference in June, features Mike Lombardi of Boeing, Alan Boyle of GeekWire, Eric Rau of Hagley Library and journalist Sarah Cruddas discussing how to preserve and share the commercial space story as part of a panel moderated by Geoff Nunn, curator at The Museum of Flight.
posted 07-20-2018 05:54 PM
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