Rocket garden

A rocket garden is a display of missiles, sounding rockets, or space launch vehicles usually in an outdoor setting. The proper form of the term usually refers to the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.[1]

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Rocket Garden in 2004.

With rare exceptions, rockets are expendable, so rockets in displays have not been flown. As in the case of the Saturn V,[2] later planned missions were cancelled, leaving unneeded rockets for the museums. For displays of early American space hardware, such as Project Mercury and Project Gemini, surplus missiles have been painted to look like manned space launch vehicles. Engineering test articles (such as the Pathfinder Space Shuttle stack in Huntsville) or purpose-built full-scale replicas are also displayed in rocket gardens.

Examples of rocket gardens

Photos
  • U.S rockets at the Space & Rocket Center. Huntsville, Alabama.
  • Authentic Saturn 1 (left) and replica Saturn V (right) at Huntsville, Alabama.
  • Indoor rocket garden, National Air and Space Museum.
  • Thiokol rocket garden, Utah.
  • Air Force Space and Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
  • Woomera Missile Park, Woomera, South Australia
  • KSCenter Visitors Center rocket garden
  • KSC Saturn IB & F1 engine

See also

References
  1. "Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden Archived 2010-06-28 at the Wayback Machine." Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved on 9 January 2012.
  2. "Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden." Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved on 9 January 2012.
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