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United States Air Force Space & Missile Museum Foundation
Museum Galleries USAF Missiles and Launch Vehicles Cape Canaveral Launch Complexes
Historical Museum Photographs Assembling the Static Displays Historical Blockhouse and Exhibit Hall Photographs Historical Complex 26 Gantry Photographs
Interactive Museum
Web Site Exhibits Complex 34: Forty Years After Apollo I
Exhibit Restoration Blue Scout Jr Restoration Project Mercury Boilerplate Capsule Restoration Project Gemini Boilerplate Capsule Restoration Project Asset Vehicle Restoration Project
Research Library
Internet Links U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Museum Foundation National Museum of the United States Air Force National Aeronautics and Space Administration F. E. Warren AFB Intercontinental Ballistic Missile & Heritage Museum Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center Florida Today Space and Missile Launch Database Association of Air Force Missileers
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This website has been made possible by a grant from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Museum Foundation. Its content has been produced and edited by staff members of the Air Force Space and Missile Museum and is thereby the only officially authorized website for this museum. However, this is not an official U.S. Air Force website, and its content is not necessarily the official view of, or endorsed by, the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, or the Department of the Air Force.
Its primary mission is to collect, restore, and exhibit items of historical significance which relate to the development and heritage of U.S. Air Force space launch activities. This unique museum highlights the Air Force as a major participant in America’s space program and emphasizes activities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station beginning in early 1950 and continuing today.
Due to the numerous launches at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the museum is closed periodically during fueling and other pre-launch operations. Please call the museum before visiting. We look forward to seeing you soon.
The museum complex includes the original blockhouse, with two-foot thick walls, situated a mere 400 feet from twin launch pads. Visitors step back in time, passing through the outer blast doors and entering the firing rooms furnished with original computers, consoles, and launch support equipment; once state-of-the-art, now obsolete and antiquated by modern standards. A full-scale model of Explorer I and an "astro chimps" display are a few of the many exhibits contained in the blockhouse.
Adjacent to the blockhouse, the Exhibit Hall features numerous space related displays on the important role of the Air Force in the development of space exploration as well as its continuing involvement. Housed within the Exhibit Hall is one of only two complete German V-2 engines in the U.S. A similar engine powered the first two Bumper launches from Cape Canaveral in 1950. Dominating an entire room of the Exhibit Hall is Gemini II, the only unmanned spacecraft to complete two space missions and the only one to exhibit military markings.
Just a short distance from the Rocket Garden is Launch Complex 5/6, where America's first two astronauts, Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom, were catapulted into space. A Mercury Redstone rocket sits on Pad 5, while a Jupiter C rocket is perched on Pad 6. Owned and operated by NASA, this complex is part of the "Cape Canaveral: Then and Now" tour.
Future plans at the museum include: an extensive restoration program for the Rocket Garden; an exhibit depicting "The Cape Before The Rockets" featuring the 1868 lighthouse; a display illustrating the 6,000-mile down-range tracking facilities which support launches from Cape Canaveral; and an exhibit documenting the transition of the Banana River Naval Air Station into the present day Patrick Air Force Base.
Museum Volunteers Volunteer tour guides add unique insight to the museum visit. Many guides are retired military personnel, past and present space program employees, or amateur space historians, all eager to share their colorful personal experiences. Visitors may request a guided tour through the museum.
United States Air Force Space & Missile Museum Foundation The mission of the United States Air Force Space & Missile Museum Foundation is to raise funds for and provide financial and other support to the Museum. To achieve these goals, the Foundation may serve as a philanthropic organization to assist the development and operation of the Museum and other historic sites at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Additionally, the Foundation receives and administers gifts from persons, organizations, corporations, foundations, and philanthropies for the best interests of the Museum. The Foundation operates a gift shop located inside the blockhouse which features unique gifts and souvenirs and administers the Museum Volunteer program.
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This page was last updated: 04 April 2007
Rocket Garden View Launch of Delta II from Complex 17A Payload: NAVSTAR II-5 Satellite 11 DEC 1989
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