
If you’ve ever said to your child, “I love you to the moon and back,” you can take that almost literally by visiting the Intrepid Museum in NYC. Its newest temporary exhibit, Apollo: When We Went to the Moon, opens to the public today, and highlights the Space Race and the history of how we, as humans, got to the moon.
Inside the museum’s Space Shuttle Pavilion is 9,000 square feet that houses the Space Shuttle Enterprise. You’ll learn about the International Space Station program through displays, interactives and rarely-seen artifacts from the U.S. Space and Rocket Center archives. You’ll learn more than you can imagine about the people, technology and world events that defined space exploration, and how the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed to be first on the Moon.
You can climb aboard a lunar rover model, leave footprints on the Moon via a virtual moonwalk and take part in other interactive parts of the exhibit. It’ll have your kids dreaming of being an astronaut.
The Apollo showcase is the largest temporary exhibition ever hosted at the Intrepid, and is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s education and curatorial staff and Flying Fish, a world-renowned traveling exhibition company.
The Intrepid has also served as a primary recovery vessel for the Mercury-Atlas 7 and Gemini 3 space missions, retrieving astronauts and their capsules after ocean landings.
Apollo: When We Went to the Moon is free with museum admission and runs through September 2.
Two weeks ago, the Intrepid Museum welcomed back the iconic British Airways Concorde G-BOAD (Alpha Delta) supersonic jet, which is famous for completing the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger aircraft. The gigantic airplane spent seven months at Brooklyn Navy Yard for a months-long restoration process. Guided tours of the historic aircraft will resume on April 4. You’ll get to go inside Concorde, hear about its history and look into its sophisticated flight deck.
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