Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
The two artifacts are reunited in"Destination Moon," having previously been displayed in separate museums. The suit was restored for this exhibition as part of the Smithsonian's first crowd-funding campaign.
Along the same wall is a look at how women and civil rights played into and were affected by the expansion of NASA facilities, especially in the Deep South. Mirrors create the illusion of standing under the Saturn V inside the flame trench, but in reality there is only one complete F-1 and a quarter section from an example of a center-mounted engine in the"Destination Moon" gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Turning around to look back toward the Gemini display case, visitors ascend the stairway to the gallery's mezzanine . The red hue of the staircase is intended to evoke the Apollo-era mobile launcher gantry that stood beside and supported the Saturn V.
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