After a pancake breakfast and packing up the campsite, we drove a few miles away to the Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, OH. Named after Wapakoneta's hometown hero, Neil Armstrong.
There were a few space capsule mock-ups outside for the boys to climb around on. BUt the real magic was inside.
There was all sorts of momrabilia from Armstrong's childhood to artifacts used on space missions. There were space suits, dehydrated food samples (behind glass, not to taste), and space capsules.
Near the end of the tour there was a movie shown in the auditorium that was housed in the big cement bubble seen in the top picture above. It was a movie about the manned moon missions and the excitement that it caused back in the day. At the very end there was a mission simulator that Alex used to try to land the Space Shuttle. I was taking notes for the day he asks me to borrow the family car. I'm afraid it doesn't look good.
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