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January
2004
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Tip
Sheet for News Rooms,
Photo Desks
Are
you looking for a location to film a “standup” or
need a photo for an aviation or space-related story?
The Air and Space Gallery at the California Science
Center in Exposition Park, Los Angeles has the
following aviation and space artifacts in its collection.
Dr. Kenneth E. Phillips, Aerospace Program Curator,
is also available for interviews. |
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| Aircraft
(inside the Air and Space Gallery) |
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1893
Lilienthal Glider full scale flying
replica (suspended)
1902 Wright Glider full scale
flying replica (suspended)
1929 Velie Monocoupe (suspended)
Bell X-1 full scale replica
(suspended) (prop from the movie “The Right
Stuff”)
Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic
jet trainer (suspended)
Northrop F20 Tigershark supersonic
jet fighter (suspended)
Bell 47-G helicopter (visitors
can sit in this former police helicopter)
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| Aircraft
(outdoors, near the Air and Space Gallery) |
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Lockheed
F-104 Starfighter supersonic jet fighter
(on side of Air and Space Gallery)
Douglas DC-8 passenger jetliner
(on elevated pedestals)
A-12 Blackbird spy plane (only
trainer ever built) and predecessor of SR-71 Blackbird |
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| Space
Capsules (actual flown spacecraft, floor mounted,
encased in plastic) |
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Mercury-Redstone
2 capsule carried Ham, a chimpanzee,
on a sub-orbital flight
Gemini 11 capsule flown
by astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon on
an orbital flight
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Space Probes (full scale, suspended in Air & Space
Gallery except for floor-mounted Viking) |
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Cassini-Huygens engineering
model (actual spacecraft will be first to
orbit Saturn in 2004)
Pioneer-Venus Probe (first
spacecraft to map the cloud-covered surface of
Venus)
Mariner 4 engineering model (first
spacecraft to successfully complete a Mars fly-by)
Viking Lander engineering model
(first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars)
Pioneer 10 engineering model (first
spacecraft to leave the solar system after a Jupiter
fly-by) |
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| Earth
Orbiting Spacecraft (full scale, suspended in
Air & Space Gallery) |
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Sputnik-1 (first
artificial spacecraft to orbit Earth— Russian,
October 1957)
Explorer-1 (first American
spacecraft to orbit Earth, January 1958)
ITOS backup spacecraft (improved
Infrared and Television weather satellite)
Vela engineering model (used
for verifying compliance with nuclear test ban
treaty)
SAGE (Stratospheric Aerosol
and Gas Experiment satellite used to assess atmospheric
ozone)
Uhuru engineering model (orbiting
X-ray astronomical observatory) |
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| Where: |
California
Science Center - Air and Space Gallery is located
at 700 State Drive (the private street that runs
next to the DC-8), south of Exposition Boulevard.
Enter State Drive from Figueroa Street. |
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| When: |
The
Science Center is open daily; the Air and Space
Gallery is open weekdays 10 am to 1 pm, weekends
11 am to 4 pm. After-hour access is available
weekdays. |
