This collection of genuine NASA artifacts is a bit of a funny mixture. The booster and main tank are real enough, recovered from actual missions, but if you look carefully at the shuttle you may notice that it looks rather fake. That's because it is the Space Shuttle Pathfinder, a genuine NASA wooden mockup, carefully built to the same size, weight, and shape as the actual shuttles and used for testing shuttle-handling and launch facilities. It didn't originally looks this pretty, but has been given cosmetic improvements to fit its afterlife role as celebrity impersonator.
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