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Oct. 2017. We received an awesome donation from Lockheed Martin. They were kind enough to donate a total of 5 different robotic machines including this one which is a prototype beam walker designed to traverse over planetary landscapes. We hope to work with a local college robotics class to try to get it in operating condition. Along with the beam walker, they sent us 3 small robotic rovers and an upper torso whose arms will be operated via remote control.
After months and months of prep work, searching for replacement parts, re-building or fabricating various parts etc. the Scott Carpenter Station is finally finished and ready to head back to the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center in Colorado Springs where it will be put on permanent display. As a re-cap, the submersible laboratory was commissioned by NASA and named after Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter. After his Mercury flight in 1962, Carpenter got heavily involved in under water exploration. After his passing in 2013, the sub was given to the Space Foundation who in turn hired our museum to restore it.
The restoration project was spear headed by museum curator Steve Janssen and Dick Wood, Vice President of the Pueblo Aircraft museum with generous help from volunteers from the Westcliffe area. Special thanks go out to David Miller, Rick Castor, Kyle Carroll, Marty Gassaro and Jeff Ivy for making the long trip out to the museum on numerous occasions to help with the prep work. Over 500 hrs went into the restoration project.
We are very pleased with the results and honored to have been able to work on this one of kind historical artifact.
The restoration project was spear headed by museum curator Steve Janssen and Dick Wood, Vice President of the Pueblo Aircraft museum with generous help from volunteers from the Westcliffe area. Special thanks go out to David Miller, Rick Castor, Kyle Carroll, Marty Gassaro and Jeff Ivy for making the long trip out to the museum on numerous occasions to help with the prep work. Over 500 hrs went into the restoration project.
We are very pleased with the results and honored to have been able to work on this one of kind historical artifact.
The 4th grade class from Custer County was able to come to the museum for a field trip in April 2017. April is space month for their class and we had fun heating up a Space Shuttle tile to show them how the Shuttle is protected from the extreme heat of re-entry into the Earth atmosphere.
On June 2, 2016 we received delivery of a booster rocket from ULA
This rocket would have been used on a Delta II. Up to 9 of these boosters
can be attached to the Delta rocket depending on the weight of the payload and desired orbital altitude. Weighing 44,000 lbs and measuring 42 feet long, this booster is now on permanent display in the museums main parking area for anyone to see. Again we owe United Launch Alliance a huge debt of gratitude for donating such a great artifact and supporting our museum.
This rocket would have been used on a Delta II. Up to 9 of these boosters
can be attached to the Delta rocket depending on the weight of the payload and desired orbital altitude. Weighing 44,000 lbs and measuring 42 feet long, this booster is now on permanent display in the museums main parking area for anyone to see. Again we owe United Launch Alliance a huge debt of gratitude for donating such a great artifact and supporting our museum.
A huge thank you to ULA (United Launch Alliance) for donating this rocket nozzle. It came off of a GEM
(Graphite Epoxy Motor) solid rocket booster. Stay tuned as we add a number of components to it in the next week or two.
(Graphite Epoxy Motor) solid rocket booster. Stay tuned as we add a number of components to it in the next week or two.
This is the latest artifact that we are adding to the museum. It is called the Lunar Oxygen Test Bed and it
was obtained from Lockheed Martin. It weighs around 1500 lbs and is about the size of a small car. It is
valued at 1.4 million dollars. We got it in pieces and it will take some time to reassemble it. Once it is on display we will add more pictures.
was obtained from Lockheed Martin. It weighs around 1500 lbs and is about the size of a small car. It is
valued at 1.4 million dollars. We got it in pieces and it will take some time to reassemble it. Once it is on display we will add more pictures.
On May 15, 2015, the museum lost a good friend when Oscar Holderer, passed away. Oscar was the last surviving member of Werner von Braun's original team of 120 engineers and scientists that came here from Germany after WWII. Oscar was kind enough to donate a number of his personal items to the museum. We are proud to have had him as a friend and he will be missed.
In April of 2015, we were happy to help out a local pre-school with a rocket launch.
In 2014 the museum was awarded the Colorado Medal of Merit for the second consecutive year.
Our 2013 Colorado Medal of Merit Award
Items on display at the local library
Space Shuttle tile on display in Custer County School library.
