The Science Museum’s Exploring Space gallery has closed after serving visitors for 39 years and a new gallery, Space has opened in the Museum’s West Hall. The new display brings together iconic objects from the history of space travel with new technologies from the UK space industry, on show for Read more
The International Space Station (ISS) is the result of a collaboration between NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia). ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan) and CSA (Canada). A notable feature of the station is the Integrated Truss Structure, which connects the large solar panels and radiators. Pressurised modules are specialised for research, habitation, Read more
Falcon 9 is a rocket that can carry cargo and humans into Earth orbit, even reaching the International Space Station (ISS) . It is produced by American aerospace company SpaceX. Technically, it is a partially re-useable, medium lift launch vehicle. Poster sized artwork (1 metre wide by 1.4 metre high). Read more
The Saturn V was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA for the Apollo lunar landing programme. In three stages and powered by liquid fuel, it remains the only vehicle to have carried humans beyond low-Earth orbit. Apollo Lunar Module The lunar module was the first crewed spacecraft to Read more
Side profile of the Vostok rocket and cutaway technical illustration of the capsule. Vostok (Boctok or East) was a single-seat crewed spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. It carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961. Six crewed flights were made between 1961 and 1963. A Read more
The Space Shuttle orbiter is the crewed spaceplane component of the Space Transportation System (STS). The other components were a large external fuel tank (ET) and two Rocketdyne solid rocket boosters (SRB) used for take-off and jettisoned before reaching orbit. Six orbiters were built for flight; Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Read more