Meteor Crater's American Astronaut Wall of Fame - Space Flight Memorials and Exhibits on Waymarking.com

The Arizona Meteor Crater has been a tourist magnet for a long time. In the 1960s, when NASA prepared for the first moon landing, it choose the crater as a training site for moon walks. The crater really is the closest thing to a lunar landscape anywhere on earth. The nearby museum concentrates mainly on meteors and comets but it also has information on the history of human space exploration. Most prominent exhibits are an Apollo Boilerplate and the American Astronauts Wall of Fame.

	A Boilerplate is a non-functional system or payload which is used to test the configuration. It is a lot cheaper to use this method than to launch the full spacecraft. Boilerplate #29 never flew in space but was used to simulate the ocean recovery of Apollo 9.
	The American Astronauts Wall of Fame lists all American Astronauts sorted by their first flight – at least it used to. Unfortunately, is has not been updated lately. The last flight listed is STS-113, the last flight before the Columbia disaster.

Since then, fifteen more Americans have earned their astronaut wings and for as long as the Visitors Center doesn't update its list, I will keep an update here:

American Astronaut Wall Of Fame Update

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