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THE ROCKET TOWER
At 42 metres high, the Rocket Tower stands proudly as the famous symbol of the National Space Centre.Take a trip in the glass lift to take a trip back in time to 1969 and the Apollo 11 moon landing, featuring the only Lunar Lander simulator outside of America!
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BLUE STREAK
Blue Streak was first designed in the 1950s to be a ballistic missile. In the 1960s it was adapted to be used as the first stage of Europe’s first satellite launcher programme, Europa. It was launched for the first time in Australia in 1964 and 11 Blue Streaks were launched altogether, all successfully. The Space Centre’s Blue Streak rocket was the last one of 15 to be made and is on loan from World Museum Liverpool.
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SPACE RACE
Deck One - start your journey and encounter real rockets, sit back in the Edwardian cinema to see the first sci-fi movie ever made or even blast off into space with the ultimate water rocket challenge.
Deck Two - become Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. Sit inside the Vostok Capsule and blast off into space.
Deck Three - join Neil and Buzz as Apollo 11 lands on the moon. Along with the last piece of genuine moon rock to be returned to Earth challenge yourself to pilot the “Eagle” onto the lunar surface in the only simulator of its kind outside of America!
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SOYUZ
An internationally significant artefact, the Space Centre’s capsule was a flight spare made by Zvezda, the Russian Space Agency, in the 1970s. It is one of only two Soyuz capsules on display in the West. The other, in Washington’s Smithsonian Institute, has none of the rocket motors or electronics that feature on the Space Centre’s exhibit.
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MOON ROCK
Lunar sample collected by Apollo 17 Astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, from a large fractured boulder near the rim of Shorty Crater. There is less than 1 tonne of Moon rock on earth, which makes this small artefact one of our most precious items.
