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Colorado Vignette - Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum

The massive B-52 Stratofortress greets you at the front door of our 1930’s-era former Air Force hangar - home to over three dozen historic airplanes and space vehicles.Housed in former Air Force classrooms, our exhibits include: The Science of Flight:the basic forces acting on an aircraft in flight. History of Avionics; aviation radio Timeline. Citizen Heroes WWII uniform and artifact collection, Technology room;. the evolution of aircraft technology and the Colorado Aviation Historical Society Heritage Hall. Highlights of the collection include: a rare B-18A Bolo, five of the Century Series fighters, an RF-84K Thunderflash parasite, an Alexander Eaglerock built in Colorado, a Star Wars X-Wing fighter, and WINGS is the only place in the world outside of the SAC Museum in Nebraska where you can see a B-1A Lancer.

The Howard Model Collection room - many original aircraft designs built by master craftsman Fred Howard Eisenhower room - artifacts from the time Denver served as the summer White House for the Late President Lowry room - items from the history of Lowry Air Force Base.

Spacecraft and Rocket Technology: The space technology exhibits at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum include models and displays demonstrating spacecraft and missile technology both historically and in the future. Explore the science of spaceflight with our interactive exhibit and experience the adventure!

Our Space Station Module started life as Martin-Marietta's mock-up for a proposed space station entry to be called "Freedom." The original proposal was for an American-only space station. The concept was later changed to include Russia and the European Space Agency and became known as the International Space Station. Martin's entry into the proposal race was rejected and ultimately found its way to our Museum.

We also have an Apollo Command Module boilerplate. This is a full scale replica which was used by NASA to develop and test capsule retrieval procedures and train astronauts for the Apollo missions to the moon.

Anchoring the south-east corner of Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum's main floor is an actual interstage skirt from a Titan IV rocket. Lockheed Martin built Titan IV's to launch large National Defense payloads into earth orbit. A Titan IV was also used to launch the National Aeronautical and Space Administration's (NASA) Cassini probe to the planet Saturn.

There are an assortment of scale models ranging in size from a table-top diorama of a moon base to a sixteen foot model of a Titan II launch vehicle as well as several hands-on exhibits demonstrating some of the conditions encountered in space.

For hours: 303-360-5360 or www.wingsmuseum.org

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