Astronaut Memorial Hall - Cocoa, FL
N 28° 23.096 W 080° 45.710
17R E 523333 N 3139867
Quick Description: The Astronaut Memorial Hall is co-located with the Brevard Community College Planetarium & Observatory in Cocoa, Florida, USA.
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/21/2007 8:42:49 PM
Waymark Code: WM2TTJ
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Long Description:Within the Astronaut Memorial Hall is the International Hall of
Space Explorers, a celebration of those who have flown into space
and in remebrance of those who perished in that pursuit.
Visitors to this facility are often surprised to find that their
homeland, or that of their ancestors, is represented in the Hall.
Flags of over 30 nations fly overhead, in the order that they
joined the "space explorers club."
Unique to the facility, the International Hall of Space
Explorers is a collection of memorabilia from each country to have
had a person fly to space. Only three nations — Russia (former
USSR), The United States, and China — have manned launch
capability. However, many citizens of other nations have hitched a
ride into space with one of them.
Display cases hold mementoes of those journeys from collectors,
governments, and the astronauts themselves. Here you will find an
authentic V2 engine, scale models of the Saturn V and Space
Shuttle, and numerous photographs, mission badges, and other
objects. Many items in the collection have flown in space.