Space cowboy March 16, 2009
Posted by Ron Warnick in Museums, People.trackback
The Examiner.com has posted an article about the Thomas P. Stafford Air & Space Museum on Route 66 in Weatherford, Okla.
The museum pays tribute to Weatherford native Stafford, who logged six NASA missions and more than 500 hours in space, including the first manned flight to the moon.
The museum is a complete air and space experience. As the exhibit hall starts at the beginning of man’s dream to fly with a full size replica of the Wright Flyer that the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903. The exhibit continues on to a replica of the Spirit of St. Louis, fighter jets and the weapons they carried, then continues into space travel with a replica of the Apollo Command Module. The largest item in the museum is an actual 94 foot Titan II missile.
Incidentally, Oklahoma has produced more astronauts than any other state.
I visited that museum once. I can wholly recomend it.
It also contains an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter, a T-38 Talon trainer, a complete set of Space Shuttle tires, in front is an F-80 Shooting Star jet fighter, and out by Route 66 is an F-104 Starfighter jet fighter.
My nephew works there while going to school at SWOSU. He loves it. Says Gen Stafford is a real prince of a guy. IMHO, it the the BEST Museum on Rt66 in OK (even if it isn’t about the Mother Road).