"The new long-term temporary space gallery isn't as large as the old one, and the rockets that used to hang over your head have been sent to the museum's Swindon depot for conservation work. What's left is a space that fits more with the museum's current ethos on showing younger people how technologies are advancing, and how it's often people who look just like you doing the work. So maybe it could be you building the next generation of spacecraft."
"There's still the old here, such as the Soyuz descent module that carried astronaut Tim Peake into space and back, and the Apollo 10 command module, which orbited the Moon in May 1969. Both have also been tilted so you can now see underneath, and to the heatshield with the damage from its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. The tilt also makes it easier to see inside the capsules, which are lit up as well."
"There's also a prototype propulsion system by Magdrive, which would allow small satellites to quickly and easily manoeuvre while in orbit. And on display for the first time is a prototype heat shield developed by Welsh company Space Forge to protect materials manufactured in orbit as they are transported to Earth. Look carefully and you'll spy the signatures of the people who built it."
The Science Museum's new space gallery prompts consideration of the amount of human waste left on the Moon by the twelve American astronauts who walked there. The gallery replaces an older corridor-style space room and will convert that corridor into a future gallery focused on technologies children are learning today. The current long-term temporary gallery is smaller; large rockets were moved to a Swindon depot for conservation. Exhibits emphasize how people similar to visitors build advancing technologies and include tilted Soyuz and Apollo 10 command modules showing heatshield re-entry damage. Prototypes by Magdrive and Space Forge and a replica Yuri Gagarin statue are also on display.
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