Apollo 7 Command Module Returning to the States

From today's Ottawa Citizen;
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The historic Apollo 7 command module is returning to the United States
next spring after 30 years as a top exhibit at the Canada Science and
Technology Museum.

"It's time for it to come home," said Claire Browne, a spokeswoman for
the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in Washington.

"It will still be on display, but you folks will have to come a little
farther to see it," she joked.
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For the full article, see http://tinyurl.com/wh4e

I, for one, will certainly miss having CM-101 displayed nearby. :-(

Ken

In article , Ken Glover wrote:
From today's Ottawa Citizen;
________

The historic Apollo 7 command module is returning to the United States
next spring after 30 years as a top exhibit at the Canada Science and
Technology Museum.

Hmm... so the only one displayed outside the US will be A-10?

(Interestingly, the Science Museum has a reasonably large "space"
display section, and places their flown CM... somewhere else. Mildly
confusing.)

--
-Andrew Gray

In article ,
Ken Glover wrote:

The historic Apollo 7 command module is returning to the United States
next spring after 30 years as a top exhibit at the Canada Science and
Technology Museum.

"It's time for it to come home," said Claire Browne, a spokeswoman for
the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in Washington.

Well, now that we have returned it, after a 29-year loan, perhaps
they could lend us something else for a few years. Enterprise perhaps? :-)

Nick

Well, now that we have returned it, after a 29-year loan, perhaps
they could lend us something else for a few years. Enterprise perhaps? :-)


You are authorrized to exhibit Snoopy, all you hae to do is locate and retrieve
it, then deorbit it safely and put on display

Could it fit in a shuttle cargo bay?

On 26 Nov 2003 00:06:01 GMT, (Hallerb) wrote:


Well, now that we have returned it, after a 29-year loan, perhaps
they could lend us something else for a few years. Enterprise perhaps? :-)


You are authorrized to exhibit Snoopy, all you hae to do is locate and retrieve
it, then deorbit it safely and put on display

LOL

Could it fit in a shuttle cargo bay?

Yeah, that secret Canadian shuttle is bigger than NASA's. It has cool
bilingual instrumentation, too. And a big beer cooler in the galley...

Dale

I visited and photographed Apollo 7 this past summer. The Canadians did a
splendid job of maintaining and featuring the exhibit. It's too bad it is
being removed from a place where it was highly regarded as a small
miracle. My understanding is that Walt Cunningham lobbied to have the
capsule brought back. My question is, where will it be shipped next? The
Smithsonian has made a serious mistake in displaying flown spacecraft by
placeing a huge number of them within 100 miles of Washington, D.C.,
whereas New England and NYC, and the West Coast have none. There are two
in one museum in Chicago, three in Space Center Houston, five at the NASM
(which is proper), "Freedom 7" at Annapolis, Gemini 12 at Goddard, and
Apollo 12 in Virginia.

I would think the one to bring back is Gemini 10, from Norway! The Apollo
10 in Great Britain is crowded into a small exhibit area with little room
to photograph it.
Hey Smithsonian! Share the wealth!

In article , RDG wrote:

I would think the one to bring back is Gemini 10, from Norway! The Apollo
10 in Great Britain is crowded into a small exhibit area with little room
to photograph it.

S'not any more; on a freestanding plinth, with several feet of space
around in all directions; it's one of several exhibits in a large hall,
and certainly didn't seem particularly crowdedd a week ago ;-)

--
-Andrew Gray

On 25 Nov 2003 15:40:45 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote:

In article , Ken Glover wrote:
From today's Ottawa Citizen;
________

The historic Apollo 7 command module is returning to the United States
next spring after 30 years as a top exhibit at the Canada Science and
Technology Museum.

Hmm... so the only one displayed outside the US will be A-10?

(Interestingly, the Science Museum has a reasonably large "space"
display section, and places their flown CM... somewhere else. Mildly
confusing.)

Aha! That would be why I couldn't find it on my recent lightning tour
of the space exhibit. (Went specifically to see the Black Arrow, which
is now displayed far better than it was in the 70s/80s)

So, where _are_ they keeping the CM these days then?

In article , Darren J
Longhorn wrote:

(Interestingly, the Science Museum has a reasonably large "space"
display section, and places their flown CM... somewhere else. Mildly
confusing.)

Aha! That would be why I couldn't find it on my recent lightning tour
of the space exhibit. (Went specifically to see the Black Arrow, which
is now displayed far better than it was in the 70s/80s)

So, where _are_ they keeping the CM these days then?

Next hall along, the "random bits of technology" one. It's at the far
end, but on the plus side you get to see some very odd things en route.
Early experimental VTOL aircrafto, for one...

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/galleryguide/EG.asp

- having finally dug up a map, it's at the right-hand end of "Making The
Modern World". Probably about where the dot is, in fact.

--
-Andrew Gray

On 28 Nov 2003 13:24:42 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote:

In article , Darren J
Longhorn wrote:

So, where _are_ they keeping the CM these days then?

Next hall along, the "random bits of technology" one. It's at the far
end, but on the plus side you get to see some very odd things en route.
Early experimental VTOL aircrafto, for one...

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/galleryguide/EG.asp

- having finally dug up a map, it's at the right-hand end of "Making The
Modern World". Probably about where the dot is, in fact.

Damn. I was close.
Still, I got my Black Arrow pictures.