Air Museum Network – Air Museum goes to moon with NASA exhibit

Belleville, Michigan USA — The Yankee Air Museum, known for its collection of artifacts dating back to World War I, is going to the moon without leaving the earth.

For the first time ever, the museum is hosting a traveling exhibit of space artifacts, kicking it off with a NASA Fly Me to the Moon Launch Party Saturday, Feb. 9.

The exhibit includes items on loan from the Johnson Space Center in Texas and Marshall Space Center in Alabama as well as the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo and will showcase items of astronaut, and Michigan native, Jack Lousma who was member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 9, 10 and 13 in the late 1960s and 1970 and pilot of the Sky Lab-3 mission in 1973.

“This is our first travel exhibit and our first educational exhibit,” said Rachel Krumwiede, the museum’s director of education. “We wanted to start having formal education programs, but we needed exhibits that tie in with what students are learning. We can do World War II, but what about the space race and the Cold War? We decided on Project Apollo and went for it.”

Air Museum goes to moon with NASA exhibit