Destination Moon

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Cincinnati Museum Center

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F-1 Engine Injector Plate

Check out the F-1 Engine Injector Plate! This piece from one of the first-stage engines of Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket was recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in 2013. See it in person and learn even more with #DestinationMoon, open through February 17, 2020. Active military and veterans receive $3 off Destination Moon. AAA Members can receive $2 off. #CMCmoon. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Transferred from NASA.

Don’t miss the final stop of Apollo 11’s national tour

Spend the holidays doing something you’re going to love to the moon and back with #DestinationMoon: The Apollo 11 Mission. It explores the birth and development of the American space program and the space race. Help us celebrate humankind’s greatest scientific achievement! #CMCmoon

an art gallery with three different moon images on the wall and one in the middle

Machetes, math and men on the moon: Apollo 11 mission exhibit comes to Cincinnati Museum Center

Machetes, math and men on the moon: Apollo 11 mission exhibit comes to Cincinnati Museum Center via Cincinnati Enquirer. #DestinationMoon #CMCmoon

the space shuttle is on display with other items in it's glass cases at the museum

Relic Hunter

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

See Relics From America's Greatest Lunar Achievement Beneath Union Terminal

Check out the photo gallery from Cincinnati Refined about #DestinationMoon: The Apollo 11 Mission! #CMCmoon

the inside of an airplane cockpit with multiple controls and other equipment on it's sides

To the moon (and Cincinnati) and back

Thanks Soapbox Cincinnati for the #DestinationMoon article!

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Rucksack #1, Survival Kit at CMC

Rucksack #1, Survival Kit as part of Destination Moon. Each Apollo mission was equipped with two rucksacks providing equipment to allow for crew survival on Earth for up to 48 hours after landing. This is the first of the two rucksacks flown on Apollo 11. It includes three water containers, one radio beacon with spare battery, three pairs of sunglasses, six packages of desalted chemicals, one desalter kit, two survival lights, one machete and two bottles of sunscreen. #CMCmoon

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St Louis Science Center

Lunar Surface

Aldrin’s Extravehicular Visor at CMC

Aldrin’s Extravehicular Visor as part of Destination Moon. The A7-L Lunar Extravehicular Visor Assembly consists of a polycarbonate shell onto which the cover, visors, hinges, eyeshades and latch are attached. It has two visors, one covered with a thermal control coating and the other with a gold optical coating. It also has two steel side sunshields, which could be raised and lowered independently. It provided impact, micrometeoroid, thermal, ultraviolet and infrared light protection. #CMCMoon

an old space shuttle sitting on display in a museum

Command Module Columbia at CMC

Command Module Columbia as part of Destination Moon. Manufacturer: North American Rockwell. Primary Materials: aluminum alloy, stainless steel, titanium. The only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft to return intact to Earth. It was the three-person crew’s living quarters for most of the mission, from Cape Kennedy, to the Moon’s orbit, to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. #CMCmoon

the moon is shown in black and white, with an inscription that reads destination to the moon

Destination Moon at CMC

Don’t miss the final stop of Apollo 11’s national tour! Destination Moon opens September 28, 2019. Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission is organized by the National Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.#CMCmoon: www.cincymuseum.org/destination-moon/