A piece of NASA history lands at Keystone Heights museum
Published: Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 8:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 8:20 p.m.
Capt. Bob Oehl, the co-founder of the Wings of Dreams Aviation
Museum at the Keystone Heights Airport, points out some to the features
of the Space Shuttle Simulator, which was delivered to the museum
Tuesday, April 24. Mike Potapow, a founding member of the museum, is at
right. (Brad McClenny/Staff photographer)
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Buy Photo Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun
The Space Shuttle
Guidance and Navigation Simulator, used to train astronauts for shuttle
missions, has found a new home at the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum at
the Keystone Heights Airport. Though it is not the same simulator his
father used to help bring Apollo 13 safely back to Earth, it still holds
significance in the space program. “We hope that the youth get another
generation interested,” he said.
The
large piece of aviation history completed its 900-mile journey in three
semi trucks from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to the
airport in Bradford County on April 24.
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Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
Friends of the Zeiss < http://friendsofthezeiss.org >
Electronic Mail - < gawalsh@planetarium.cc >
SPACE & SCIENCE NEWS, ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.
SPACEWATCHTOWER BLOG: < http://spacewatchtower.
Twitter: < http://twitter.com/
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Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh:
< http://www.planetarium.
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
< http://adlerplanetarium.
* Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear:
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com >
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries:
< http://www.andrewcarnegie.
* Civil War Museum of Andrew Carnegie Free Library:
< http://garespypost.tripod.com >
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh:
< http://inclinedplane.tripod.
* Public Transit:
< http://andrewcarnegie2.tripod.
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gaw
Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
Friends of the Zeiss < http://friendsofthezeiss.org >
Electronic Mail - < gawalsh@planetarium.cc >
SPACE & SCIENCE NEWS, ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.
SPACEWATCHTOWER BLOG: < http://spacewatchtower.
Twitter: < http://twitter.com/
Facebook: < http://www.facebook.com/pages/
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh:
< http://www.planetarium.
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
< http://adlerplanetarium.
* Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear:
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com >
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries:
< http://www.andrewcarnegie.
* Civil War Museum of Andrew Carnegie Free Library:
< http://garespypost.tripod.com >
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh:
< http://inclinedplane.tripod.
* Public Transit:
< http://andrewcarnegie2.tripod.
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