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A rocket garden is a display of missiles, sounding rockets, or space launch vehicles, usually in
an outdoor setting. The proper form of the term usually refers to the Rocket Garden at the
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.[1]

All rockets that have flown so far are at least partially expendable (in some rockets, certain
stages or boosters get reused), so rockets in displays have not been flown. As in the case of
the Saturn V,[2] later planned missions were cancelled, leaving unneeded rockets for the
museums. For displays of early American space hardware, such as Project Mercury and
Project Gemini, surplus missiles have been painted to look like crewed space launch vehicles.
Engineering test articles (such as the Space Shuttle Pathfinder stack in Huntsville) or purpose-
built full-scale replicas are also displayed in rocket gardens.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Rocket
Garden in 2004.
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Woomera, South Australia

Musée de l'air et de l'espace, Le Bourget, France
Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde, Germany
U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Air Force Space and Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, New Mexico
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico
White Sands Missile Range, near Las Cruces, New Mexico
1964 New York World's Fairgrounds, Flushing Meadows Park, New York; now the New York Hall of Science
National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma
SpaceX Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas
Space Center Houston, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
Thiokol, near Promontory, Utah
Air Power Park, Hampton, Virginia
Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center, Wallops Island, Virginia
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (indoors)
Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming

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U.S. rockets at the Authentic Saturn I (left) Indoor rocket garden, Thiokol rocket garden, Air Force Space and
Space & Rocket Center. and replica Saturn V National Air and Space Utah. Missile Museum, Cape
Huntsville, Alabama. (right) at Huntsville, Museum. Canaveral Space Force
Alabama. Station, Florida.

Woomera Missile Park, KSCenter Visitors Center KSC Saturn IB & F1

Woomera, South rocket garden engine
Australia

See also [ edit ]

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex § Rocket Garden

Rock garden, likely the inspiration of the term "rocket garden"
Sculpture garden, another example of a "garden" displaying nonliving, humanmade objects

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1. ^ "Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden Archived 2010-06-28 at the Wayback Machine." Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved on 9 January 2012.
2. ^ "Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden ." Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved on 9 January 2012.

External links [ edit ]

Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden Wikimedia Commons has

United States manned space boosters on display from A Field Guide to American Spacecraft media related to Rocket
gardens.

Categories: Rocket sculptures Military and war museums Open-air museums Space-related tourist attractions Rockets and missiles
Cold War museums History of spaceflight

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