Rocket garden

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The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Rocket Garden.

A rocket garden is a display of missiles, sounding rockets, or space launchers, usually in an outdoor setting. The proper form of the term usually refers to the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

With rare exceptions, rockets are expendable, so rockets in displays have not been flown. As in the case of the Saturn V, later planned missions were cancelled, leaving unneeded rockets for the museums. For displays of the early American space hardware (for Project Mercury and Project Gemini), surplus missiles have been painted to look like manned space launchers. Also, engineering test articles (such as the Pathfinder space shuttle stack in Huntsville) or purpose-built full-scale replicas end up in rocket gardens.

[edit] Incomplete list of rocket gardens

Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida
USAF Space and Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral, Florida
U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC (indoors)
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
Thiokol, near Promontory, Utah
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
1964 New York World's Fairgrounds, Flushing Meadows Park, New York
White Sands Missile Range, near Las Cruces, New Mexico
New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, New Mexico
National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma
Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France
Air Power Park, Hampton, Virginia

US Space and Rocket Center rocket garden, Huntsville, Alabama.	The Saturn 1 at Huntsville is authentic; the Saturn V is a replica.	Indoor rocket garden, National Air and Space Museum.	Thiokol rocket garden, Utah.
Air Force Space and Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.