TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

WHERE TO SEE ALL MANNER OF SPACE-RELATED PIECES

National Air and Space Museum, Independence Ave at 6th Street, SW Washington, DC 20560, USA. +1 20 26 33 22 14; airandspace. si.edu A!cionados of the Apollo programme must visit the 23 galleries containing the collections of the Smithsonian Institution (which owns the majority of historic NASA artefacts).

National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester, LE4 5NS. 0116 261 0261; spacecentre.co.uk The UK’s largest planetarium as well as unusual pieces of early measuring equipment and astronauts’ kit.

The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD. 020 7942 5000; nhm.ac.uk One of the largest meteorite collections in the world, started in 1802 and now including pieces from 2,000 individual meteorites.

Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD. 0333 241 4000; sciencemuseum.org.uk On display at the Science Museum is the Apollo 10 module (the fastest- ever manned vehicle) as well as British astronaut Tim Peake’s descent module, decommissioned rockets and images direct from the International Space Station.

The Spaceguard Centre, Llanshay Lane, Knighton, Powys, LD7 1LW. 01547 520247; spaceguardcentre.com Established to study NEOs (Near Earth Objects, such as comets and asteroids), this one-man set- up holds specialist telescopes and fragments.