Continuing from yesterday's introduction, here are the space and/or science-related National Historic Landmarks in the United States of America.
I've been to 12 already, and have 22 to go. Sadly, none of us may ever reach the total of #35 since one, the Old Naval Observatory in Washington DC, is no longer open to the public. But that's the only one!
Also note, this is the 5th in a series of space maps, and the rest can be found at the same domain. The master Space Maps page lists other similar tools for space agencies, space museums, astronaut birth places, Apollo Moon Trees, scaled solar system hikes and all NASA spacecrafts on display.
ALABAMA (5)
Huntsville: Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
October 3, 1985
34°39′07″N 86°40′41″W
Huntsville: Rocket Propulsion and Structural Test Facility
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
October 3, 1985
34°37′25″N 86°39′31″W
Huntsville: Redstone Rocket Test Stand
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
October 3, 1985
34°37′51″N 86°40′00″W
Huntsville: Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
October 3, 1985
34°37′45″N 86°39′40″W
Huntsville: Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
February 10, 1987
34°42′30″N 86°39′21″W
ALASKA - NONE
ARIZONA (1)
Flagstaff: Lowell Observatory
December 21, 1965
1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86001
ARKANSAS - NONE
CALIFORNIA (7)
Fort Irwin: Pioneer Deep Space Station
October 3, 1985
35°23′15″N 116°51′22″W
Lompoc: Space Launch Complex 10
June 23, 1986
Aero Road, Vandenberg Air Force Base
34°45′55″N 120°37′20″W
Los Angeles: Hale Solar Observatory
December 20, 1989
740 Holladay Road, Pasadena, CA 91106
Los Angeles: Space Flight Operations Facility
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 3, 1985
Building 230, DSN Road, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
Los Angeles: Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 3, 1985
Surveyor Road, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
Mountain View: Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
NASA Ames Research Center
October 3, 1985
C Lane & Durand Road, Moffett Field
San Marino: Edwin Hubble House
December 8, 1976 1340
Woodstock Road, San Marino, CA 91108
COLORADO - NONE
CONNECTICUT - NONE
DELAWARE - NONE
FLORIDA (1)
Cape Canaveral: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
US Department of Defense Space Launch Facility
April 16, 1984
28.488889°N 80.577778°W
GEORGIA - NONE
HAWAII – NONE
IDAHO - NONE
ILLINOIS (3)
Chicago: Adler Planetarium
(First and oldest planetarium in western hemisphere)
February 27, 1987
E Solidarity Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
Chicago: Arthur H. Compton House
(Nobel Prize Physicist, Compton Effect)
May 11, 1976
5637 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Urbana: University Of Illinois Astronomical Observatory
December 20, 1989
1450 W Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801
INDIANA - NONE
IOWA - NONE
KANSAS - NONE
KENTUCKY - NONE
LOUISIANA - NONE
MAINE - NONE
MARYLAND (1)
Greenbelt: Spacecraft Magnetic Test Facility
NASA Goddard Research Center
October 3, 1985
10476 Good Luck Rd Glenn Dale, MD 20769
MASSACHUSETTS (1)
Auburn: First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launch Site
Robert H. Goddard Family Farm (Now a golf course)
November 13, 1966
Stonebridge Road, Auburn, MA 01501
MICHIGAN - NONE
MINNESOTA - NONE
MISSISSIPPI - NONE
MISSOURI - NONE
MONTANA - NONE
NEBRASKA - NONE
NEVADA - NONE
NEW HAMPSHIRE - NONE
NEW JERSEY (2)
Princeton: Albert Einstein House
July 1, 1976 1
12 Mercer Street Princeton, NJ 08540
Holmdel: Horn Antenna
Big Bang Confirmation /Universe microwave radiation discovery
May 30, 1974
40.390752°N 74.184859°W
NEW MEXICO (2)
Los Alamos: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
US DOE / Site of Manhattan Project
December 21, 1965
4200 W Jemez Rd #300, Los Alamos, NM
Doña Ana: White Sands V-2 Launching Site
White Sands Missile Range
October 3, 1985 32.399378°N 106.377814°W
NEW YORK (2)
Hastings-on-Hudson: John W. Draper House & Observatory
Astrophotography pioneer, first to photographed Moon surface features
May 15, 1975
40.9901°N 73.8801°W
Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Observatory
Workplace of pioneer astronomer Maria Mitchell
July 17, 1991
41.6875°N 73.893611°W
NORTH CAROLINA - NONE
NORTH DAKOTA – NONE
OHIO (3)
Cincinnati: Cincinnati Observatory
Original building atop Mt. Lookout
December 9, 1997
3489 Observatory Place, Cincinnati, OH 45208
Sandusky: Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility (B-2)
NASA Glenn Research Center
October 3, 1985
North Magazine Road Sandusky, OH 44870
Cleveland: Zero Gravity Research Facility
October 3, 1985
W Hangar Road Cleveland, OH 44135
OKLAHOMA - NONE
OREGON - NONE
PENNSYLVANIA - NONE
RHODE ISLAND - NONE
SOUTH CAROLINA - NONE
SOUTH DAKOTA - NONE
TENNESSEE - NONE
TEXAS (2)
Houston: Apollo Mission Control Center
NASA Johnson Space Center
October 3, 1985
Delta Link JSC, Houston, TX 77058
Houston: Space Environment Simulation Laboratory
NASA Johnson Space Center
October 3, 1985
Avenue C, JSC, Houston, TX 77058
UTAH - NONE
VERMONT (1)
North Springfield: Stellafane Observatory
Springfield Telescope Makers, Inc.
December 20, 1989
Jordan Road, Springfield, VT 05156
VIRGINIA (2)
Hampton: Lunar Landing Research Facility
NASA Langley Research Center
October 3, 1985
W Bush Road, Hampton, VA 23681
Hampton: Rendezvous Docking Simulator
NASA Langley Research Center
October 3, 1985
Building 1244, Ames Road, Hampton, VA
WASHINGTON - NONE
WASHINGTON DC (1)
District of Columbia: Old Naval Observatory
(Only space-related National Historic Landmark closed to the public)
January 12, 1965
23rd Street and E Street NW Washington DC
WEST VIRGINIA (1)
Green Bank: Reber Radio Telescope
First parabolic radio telescope
December 20, 1989
W Virginia 92, Monongahela National Forest
WISCONSIN - NONE
WYOMING - NONE
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