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Stafford Air & Space Museum

Stafford Air & Space Museum is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Stafford Air & Space Museum rather than just read about it. In short: The Stafford Air & Space Museum is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma, United States. The museum, named after NASA astronaut and Weatherford native Thomas P.

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Reference excerpt

The Stafford Air & Space Museum is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma, United States. The museum, named after NASA astronaut and Weatherford native Thomas P. Stafford, became a Smithsonian Affiliate in June 2010. The museum's displays include Stafford's Apollo 10 spacesuit, the Gemini 6A spacecraft he piloted in 1965, artifacts from the Space Shuttle program, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mir Space Station, a Moon rock, a Titan II missile, a Mark 6 re-entry vehicle, and a collection of over 20 historic aircraft. The museum is located at the Thomas P. Stafford Airport.

Name

The museum is named for astronaut and flight pioneer Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, a native of Weatherford and one of only 24 people to have traveled to the Moon. Graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, Stafford is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. A veteran of four space flights, he piloted Gemini 6A in 1965, commanded Gemini 9A in 1966, flew the 1969 Moon-orbiting mission Apollo 10, and commanded the American capsule of the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

History The museum opened in 1983 in two rooms at the Weatherford airport. By 2006, it had expanded to four buildings. The museum purchased a Space Shuttle simulator in 2016. It began fundraising for an 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m2) expansion in 2017.

Exhibits The center boasts one of the few Titan II launch vehicles on display. The huge rocket body spans the back of a display gallery from one side of the building to the other. Numerous items acquired from the Smithsonian and on display include: a Gemini flight suit, space food, survival items flown to the Moon on Apollo 11, and the flight pressure suit Stafford wore on Apollo 10, the first flight of the Apollo Lunar Module which orbited the Moon. The hatch through which U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts docked and greeted each other in space during the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz mission is on display in the museum. Stafford is pictured reaching through the hatch, shaking hands with Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. The uniforms that the two astronauts were wearing at the time are also on display. Other exhibits include retired aircraft, such as a Russian MiG-21R and a F-16. Full-size replicas displayed include the Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis, Apollo Command Module, and Gemini spacecraft. The museum also features the Rose & Tom Luczo Educational Center, which includes a flight simulation computer lab, a kids' library, and a Talon A3 Motion-Based Flight Simulator that runs X-Plane 11 and Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Also on display is a TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol given to Stafford by Leonov. As of March 5, 2018, the museum has acquired a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, also known as the "Warthog," which is on display outside the museum. In July 2018, the Gemini 6A spacecraft was moved to the museum.

Early aviation

Wright Flyer (full-scale, flyable replica) Blériot XI (full-scale replica) Curtiss Pusher (full-scale, flyable replica) Sopwith Pup (full-scale replica) Spirit of St. Louis (full-scale replica)

Early rocketry Goddard rocket (full-scale replica) V-2 rocket engine Sputnik 1 (full-scale replica) Explorer 1 (full-scale replica)

Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs Lunar Sample collected by Gene Cernan on Apollo 17 Congressional Space Medal of Honor presented to Thomas P. Stafford in 1993 Gemini 6A spacecraft Gen. Stafford's Gemini space suit Apollo 10 space suit Lunar Module Checklist Apollo–Soyuz Docking Ring Mission Control console from Johnson Space Center (actual used artifact) F-1 rocket engine J-2 rocket engine Titan II rocket Full scale Apollo Lunar Module replica Apollo Command and Service Module (full-scale replica) Gemini spacecraft (full-scale replica) 1/72 scale models of all of the man-rated rockets of the "Space Race" Astronaut Maneuvering Unit model

Modern space and aviation Space Shuttle main engine Shuttle solid rocket booster segment Mark 6 nuclear warhead 1/15th scale Hubble Space Telescope Rocket "Crawler Shoe" Bell X-1 (full-scale replica) F-86 "Sabre" fighter MiG-21R "Fishbed" fighter T-38 "Talon" trainer T-33 trainer B61 thermonuclear bomb F-16 "Fighting Falcon" F-104 "Starfighter" F-4 Phantom A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk USAF #82-0819 "Raven Beauty"

References

External links

Museum website Stafford Air & Space Museum info, photos and videos on TravelOK.com Official travel and tourism website for the State of Oklahoma

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Stafford Air & Space Museum

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Stafford Air & Space Museum

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In the classroom: Stafford Air & Space Museum is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1981 establishments in Oklahoma, Aerospace museums in Oklahoma, Human spaceflight, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Stafford Air & Space Museum in simple terms?

The Stafford Air & Space Museum is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma, United States. The museum, named after NASA astronaut and Weatherford native Thomas P.

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Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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