Tulsa Air and Space Museum opens exhibit for Oklahoma NASA Astronaut, Bill Pogue
The Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM) opened an exhibit for Oklahoma-born NASA Astronaut William 'Bill' Pogue on Wednesday. The Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM) has opened an exhibit for Oklahoma-born NASA Astronaut, Bill 'Bill' Pogue. The exhibit includes medals, flags, and space suits belonging to Pogue, who died on March 3, 2014. The museum's curator, Alex London, stated that TASM has the largest collection of Pogue's memorabilia and aims to educate people about his story and inspire them to become more involved in space. The exhibition will be open until Saturday, Feb. 17.
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TULSA, Okla. — The Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM) opened an exhibit for Oklahoma-born NASA Astronaut William 'Bill' Pogue on Wednesday.
The exhibit opened on Wednesday, Jan. 23, which would have been Pogue's 94th birthday. He died on March 3, 2014.
The exhibit includes medals, flags, and space suits all belonging to Pogue.
FOX23 spoke with Alex London, the museum's curator, about the exhibit.
"Our museum is privileged enough to have some incredible objects from his lifetime” London said.
London said next to Pogue’s family, TASM has the largest collection of Pogue’s memorabilia.
"Oklahoma has an incredible tradition of space history," London said.
Pogue went to space in 1973 as part of NASA’s Skylab 4 mission.
“It was kind of like the international space station before the international space station, London said.
Before that, Pogue was in the air force and assisted on the Apollo missions.
"A lot of our objects are artifacts from that mission, so when you come here and see stuff you'll see pieces of Skylab" London said.
London told FOX23 there are a couple things they want to accomplish through this exhibit.
"First and foremost, we want people to learn about the story of Bill Pogue, here's an individual who's from Oklahoma our state" he said.
They also want to get more people interested in space.
"We have a space port in Oklahoma aviation is our second largest industry and we're looking toward the future, so it's something that has a terrific past but also I think it has a terrific future, and we want our young people to know they can be part of that incredible future if they wanna be," London said.
The exhibit will be open through Saturday, Feb. 17.
The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can get tickets online HERE.
Topics: Space, NASA