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Note: All boosters actually used in Manned Space Flight were expendable (except STS Orbiters and SRBs) and therefore no longer exist. This list consists of left over hardware or full-scale simulations. In some cases, actual excess missles were "dressed-up" to play the part of a historic vehicle.


Program Vehicle Pic Current Location Comments
Little Joe
Mercury Little Joe
Airpower Park and Museum, Hampton, VA .
Mercury Little Joe
Wallops Flight Facility Visitors Center, Wallops Island, VA .
Redstone
Mercury Redstone
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS Built by Space Works
Mercury Redstone
Kennedy Space Center, FL Identified as booster MR-6. At Gate 3, Rt. 407 near Titusville, FL Damaged by Hurricane Francis. Now being restored at Guard Lee.
Mercury Redstone
Kennedy Space Center, FL At Gate 2, Rt. 3 near Merritt Island, FL
Mercury Redstone
KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, FL .
Mercury Redstone
Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan Currently in storage
Mercury Redstone
North Carolina Museum of Life and Sciences, Durham, NC .
Mercury Redstone
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX In Rocket Park, part of  Space Center Houston tour 
Mercury Redstone
Parque de las Ciencias Luis A. Ferré, Bayamon, PR .
Mercury Redstone
U.S. Air Force Space Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL Actually located on LC 5 & 6, but can be visited through KSCVC "Then & Now Tour". 
Mercury Redstone
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL .
Atlas
Mercury Atlas
KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, FL In Rocket Garden
Mercury Atlas
New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, NY Part of 1964-65 World's Fair's Space Park. Restored in 2004.
Mercury Atlas
Parque de las Ciencias Luis A. Ferré, Bayamon, PR .
Titan II
Gemini Titan II
KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, FL Undergoing restoration at Guard Lee, Apopka, FL
Gemini Titan II
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS Built by Space Works
Gemini Titan II
New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, NY Part of 1964-65 World's Fair's Space Park. Restored in 2004.
Gemini Titan II
Parque de las Ciencias Luis A. Ferré, Bayamon, PR .
. Titan II
Stafford Air & Space Center, Weatherford, OK Painted as booster for Gemini IX, sits along model Gemini spacecraft and nuclear warhead
Little Joe II
Apollo Little Joe II
New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, NM .
Apollo Little Joe II
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX In Rocket Park, part of  Space Center Houston tour. 
Carries Apollo CM BP-22.
Saturn Family
Apollo Saturn I
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL Configuation for Pegasus experiment launch.
Apollo Saturn IB
Alabama Welcome Center, I-65 South, near TN-AL line Consisting of S-IB-11 and S-IVB-?
Apollo Saturn IB
KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, FL Consisting of S-IB-9 and S-IVB-209 and FVV
Skylab Saturn IB
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL S-IVB-211 used in outdoor Skylab display
Apollo Saturn V
KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, FL Fully Restored, at Apollo/Saturn V Center consisting of S-IC-T, S-II-14 and S-IVB-514 and BP-30
Apollo Saturn V
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX In Rocket Park, part of  Space Center Houston tour Consisting of S-IC-14, S-II-15 and S-IVB-513 and CM -115
Apollo Saturn V
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL Inside Davidson Center. Consisting of S-IC-D, S-II-F/D and S-IVB-D
Apollo  Saturn V
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL Full size 1:1 scale model
Apollo Saturn V
Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, LA S-IC-15 First stage only
Apollo Saturn V
New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, NY NO LONGER THERE Part of 1964-65 World's Fair's Space Park. Aft skirt and F-1 engines only. Destroyed to make room for Hall of Science addition.
Apollo Saturn V
Parque de las Ciencias Luis A. Ferré, Bayamon, PR S-II Interstage from S-II-14
Space Shuttle
STS SRB (set)
KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, FL In Shuttle Plaza with two SRBs
STS SRB
Stennis Space Center, Port St. Louis, MS .
STS SRB
Thiokol Missile Systems, Promontory, UT In Missle Park
STS SRB (set)
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL Set of test articles for Advanced Solid Rocket Booster (ASRB).  Part of Pathfinder stack.
STS ET
KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, FL Now displayed between two SRBs in Shuttle Plaza. (Formerly at Stennis Space Center)
STS ET
Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, LA Construction facility. ETs may be observed while loading onto barge for shipment to KSC.
STS MPTA-ET
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL Test article. Complete with insulating foam covering. Part of Pathfinder stack.
Ares I
Orion Ares 1-X
Kennedy Space Center, FL Built at Glenn Research Center, NASA, Cleveland, OH
Ares V
Aircraft launchers
X-15 B-52 0008
Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, CA Launched 150 of the 199 X-15 flights as well as many other X vehicles
X-15 B-52 0003
Pima Air Museum, Tuscon, AR
SpaceShip1 318
Scaled Composites, Mojave, CA N318SL White Night

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