By Wesley Regenbogen
Spaceflight
in real life has been a thing where many people have been wondering
about and are interested in it. So am I. So I found this place in Second
Life called the “International Spaceflight Museum.” It was
created in September 2005, according to their Facebook page, and they
provide full-scale models of spacecraft of 12 different countries, not just from America and the Russians. You
can compare a 360-meter tall Saturn
V Moon rocket with the Mercury-Atlas, which is sitting next to each
other.
You can also ride on a
rocket and orbit the Earth and walk the platforms around it. When you walk around on
the platform you will see the other planets and just right-click them
and then just select “Teleport” and you will be teleported to the
planet in question. When you go to the
planet Mars, you can even teleport to the ( virtual ) Mars surface
and look around there, it’s a small area, but you can walk and see
the rovers and get more information about them.
This museum isn't sponsored by NASA or the U.S. government, but cared for by volunteers. It’s operated by the ISMuseum, a Texas non-profit corporation.Any donations you give will help keep it running.
They also have a Wiki
page available with more information about the place itself : http://www.ismuseum.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. I didn't see future events listed on the wiki, although there was the Space
Week recently. The nearby Spinthrift sim hosts music performances every Sunday at 8PM, and the National Space Society holds weekly meetings every Monday at 3PM at their sim.
This museum isn't sponsored by NASA or the U.S. government, but cared for by volunteers. It’s operated by the ISMuseum, a Texas non-profit corporation.Any donations you give will help keep it running.
They also have a Wiki
page available with more information about the place itself : http://www.ismuseum.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. I didn't see future events listed on the wiki, although there was the Space
Week recently. The nearby Spinthrift sim hosts music performances every Sunday at 8PM, and the National Space Society holds weekly meetings every Monday at 3PM at their sim.
In my personal opinion,
I think this is the best space museum in Second Life. It’s really amazing that you can really fly with
a rocket into space here. It’s also quite amazing
that they actually recreated it all so realistically. There are a lot of things to see, too many to list here. I suggest you check
them out when you visit the place yourself.
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Wesley Regenbogen
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