Dale Parker Space Collection - Boeing Museum of Flight - Seattle, Washington
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N 47° 31.081 W 122° 17.823
10T E 552923 N 5262971
Boeing Museum of Flight is home to an extensive space flight exhibit. They also house the largest space library and archives on the West coast, known as the Dale Parker Space Collection. The space exhibit is located in a wing of the main museum.
Waymark Code: WM1A5Q
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2007
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Boeing Museum of Flight is one of the largest aviation museum in the world and attracts more than 400,000 visitors annually. The museum houses the Dale Parker Space Collection, which is comprised of over 200 cubic feet of technical documents and memorabilia that chronicle the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Soviet space programs from 1957 through the mid 1990's. There are also exhibited spacecraft including the
Apollo Command Module, the
Boeing Lunar Rover, the
McDonnell Mercury Capsule, and their newest acquisition, a
Viking FC#3 Mars Lander, the only Viking Lander Flight Capsule body left on Earth.
The space collection is grouped together in a wing of the museum and you must pay admission to the museum to see it. The coordinates above are for the main entrance to the Museum of Flight.