Rocket garden
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A rocket garden is a display of missiles, sounding rockets, or space launch vehicles usually in an outdoor setting. The proper form of the term usually refers to the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
With rare exceptions, rockets are expendable, so rockets in displays have not been flown. As in the case of the Saturn V[2], later planned missions were cancelled, leaving unneeded rockets for the museums. For displays of the early American space hardware (for Project Mercury and Project Gemini), surplus missiles have been painted to look like manned space launchers. Also, engineering test articles (such as the Pathfinder space shuttle stack in Huntsville) or purpose-built full-scale replicas end up in rocket gardens.
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[edit] Incomplete list of rocket gardens
- Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida
- Air Force Space & Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral, Florida
- U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
- National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC (indoors)
- Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
- Thiokol, near Promontory, Utah
- Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
- 1964 New York World's Fairgrounds, Flushing Meadows Park, New York. Now the New York Hall of Science
- White Sands Missile Range, near Las Cruces, New Mexico
- New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, New Mexico
- National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
- Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma
- Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France
- Air Power Park, Hampton, Virginia
- F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming
- Woomera, South Australia
- Historisch-technisches Informationszentrum, Peenemünde, Germany
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U.S rockets at the Space & Rocket Center. Huntsville, Alabama.
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Indoor rocket garden, National Air and Space Museum.
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Thiokol rocket garden, Utah.
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Air Force Space and Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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Woomera Missile Park, Woomera, South Australia
[edit] See also
- rock garden, likely the inspiration of the term "rocket garden"
- sculpture garden, another example of a "garden" displaying nonliving, manmade objects
[edit] References
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This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2008) |
- ^ "Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden." Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved on 9 January 2012.
- ^ "Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden." Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved on 9 January 2012.
[edit] External links
- Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden
- United States manned space boosters on display from A Field Guide to American Spacecraft
