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Asteroid sample collected by Hayabusa2

2021

Model of JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, 1:20 scale

2018

Moon rock

Goddard combustion chamber top

circa 1927

Goddard's L-1 rocket engine model

circa 1975

Goddard rocket fuel tank

circa 1930

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

RL-10 engine

1962

Apollo fuel cell power plant

1972

Bronze bust of Soviet cosmonaut

2017

Soyuz TMA-19M Descent Module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”

2015

Goddard rocket engine

1929

Goddard's K-1 rocket model

circa 1975

Goddard rocket fuel injector head

circa 1929

Astronauts bio-belt medical harness

1973-1974

Apollo 11 Passive Seismic Experiment Package, full size model

1968

Omega Speedmaster watch

1960s

Apollo 11 Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector full-size model

1968

Main parachute in bag from Soyuz descent module TMA-19M

2015

Viking Lander biology experiment

1976
One sample of "Q-Fiber" silica fibre in clear plastic bag, used to manufacture Space Shuttle Orbiter HRSI and LRSI thermal tiles, and AFRSI insulation

One sample of "Q-Fiber" silica fibre in clear plastic bag

1980
One test heat exchanger assembly, fine bore tubing, as used on HOTOL programme, 1986.

Test heat exchanger assembly

1986
Sample, one of two, of "Quilite" Advanced Flexible Reusable Surface Insulation (AFRSI), as used on Space Shuttle Orbiters.

Sample, one of two

1980
One test heat exchanger assembly, medium bore tubing, serial number JM ORR 026 701, as used on HOTOL programme, 1986.

Test heat exchanger assembly

1986
Skylab cat-Ion cartridge piston assembly, recovered in Western Australia after re-entry of Skylab spacecraft in 1979

Skylab cat-lon cartridge piston assembly

Apollo/Skylab space food - Cocoa flavoured instant breakfast

Apollo/Skylab space food - cocoa flavoured instant drink

Apollo/Skylab space food - cherry drink

Apollo/Skylab space food - cherry drink

Huygens Surface Science Package, ACCE-1 accelerometer, engineering model. Developed by Open University Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI), Milton Keynes, UK, c.2002

Huygens Surface Science Package Accelerometer, ACCE-1, 2002

2002
Replica Space Shuttle Galley and personal hygiene station

Replica Space Shuttle Galley and personal hygiene station

Model of Apollo Command Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) in trans lunar configuration, scale 1:48.

Model of Apollo Command Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) in trans lunar configuration

1996
1:6 scale model of GIRD-09, the first Russian bi-propellant rocket, c. 1933

GIRD-09, the first Soviet liquid-fuelled rocket, 1933.

1933
FONEMA (Fast Omni-directional Non-scanning Energy Mass Analyser) instrument, Mars 96 spacecraft, engineering model. Developed by Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Guildford, 1995

FONEMA, Mars 96

1995
Urine collection and transfer assembly

Urine Collection and Transfer Assembly, type worn by Alan Shepard on Apollo 14

1968
Huygens Titan lander, 1:1 model, by Hupkens Models, Netherlands, 2005. The model was made for the European Space Agency.

Huygens Titan lander model

2005
Model, (scale 1:6) American Interplanetary Society No 2 rocket, 1933

Model of American Interplanetary Society No 2 rocket

Classic Science Fiction/Rocketry book, one of three, "Raketenflug" by R. Nebel, Berlin-Reinickendorf, 1932

Classic Science Fiction/Rocketry book

William Hale's patent rocket, one of four British war rockets, c.1862

William Hale's patent rocket

circa 1862
'Boxer', 9 pounder rocket , one of four British war rockets, c.1862

'Boxer' rocket

circa 1862
Disposable Absorption Containment Trunk (DACT) was developed by NASA as part of the Body Waste Management System during Extra-Vehicular Activity for female astronauts during the 1980s.

Disposable Absorption Containment Trunk (DACT)

1980
Prototype Fluxgate Magnetometer probe as used on Cassini spacecraft

Prototype Fluxgate Magnetometer probe

circa 1995
Whirlpool water gun-fire extinguisher

Whirlpool water gun-fire extinguisher

Recovery Antenna for Soyuz TMA-19M descent module, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Public Corporation “Energia”, Russia, 2015

Recovery Antenna for Soyuz TMA-19M descent module

2015
Apollo 11 lightweight headset and adaptor, used by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, made by the Rockwell Corporation, United States, 1965.

Apollo 11 Lightweight Headset

1965
Beagle 2 Mars lander, model (scale 1:1). Spacecraft developed by Open University Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI), Milton Keynes, UK, 2002.

Beagle 2 Mars lander, 2002

2002
Photon Detector Assembly (PDA) of the Hubble Space Telescope's Faint Object Camere, flight spare.

Photon Detector Assembly (PDA) for Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera, engineering model

unknown
Stand for Black Knight re-entry head

Stand for Black Knight re-entry head

Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) instrument for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), model. Developed by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK, 1995

SOHO Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS)

1995
CHASE (Coronal Helium Abundance Spacelab Experiment) for 1985 Spacelab 2 experiments, model. Developed by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK, 1984

CHASE (Coronal Helium Abundance Spacelab Experiment) for 1985 Spacelab 2 experiments

1984
Black Knight re-entry head, sectioned, 1957.

Black Knight re-entry head, sectioned, 1957

1957
A charge coupled device (CCD) used in the Ralph telescope of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

New Horizons 'Ralph' charge coupled device