{"id":16036,"date":"2014-04-11T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T06:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16036"},"modified":"2014-04-13T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T05:25:18","slug":"columbia-memorial-space-center-in-downey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/columbia-memorial-space-center-in-downey\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dowcolu.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Columbia Memorial Space Center is both a tribute to\u00a0Space Shuttle Columbia&#8217;s seven crew members, lost in 2003, and Downey&#8217;s\u00a070 years of aviation technology and manufacturing history. \u00a0Missile development, design &amp; production of Apollo command and service modules during the lunar program, and development &amp; production of the Space Shuttle Orbiters all happened here. The public is invited to visit this special museum.<\/p>\n<h2>See &amp; do at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/downey-columbia-space-center.html\">Columbia Memorial Space Center<\/a>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER: Return to the Moon, Voyage to Mars or Rendezvous With Comet Halley in this space mission simulator.<\/li>\n<li>ROBOTICS LAB: Test your skills by running a mission to collect rock samples, just like the actual Mars rovers.<\/li>\n<li>APOLLO BOILERPLATE 12: Unmanned transonic abort test vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>SHUTTLE SIMULATOR<\/li>\n<li>ROCKET LAUNCHER<\/li>\n<li>ROCKWELL SIGNATURE BLOCKS: \u00a014 concrete blocks signed by astronauts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia Memorial Space Center is both a tribute to\u00a0Space Shuttle Columbia&#8217;s seven crew members, lost in 2003, and Downey&#8217;s\u00a070 years of aviation technology and manufacturing history. \u00a0Missile development, design &amp; production of Apollo command and service modules during the lunar program, and development &amp; production of the Space Shuttle Orbiters all happened here. The public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}