SPACE HISTORY MUSEUM · INTERACTIVE FEATURE
From the Moon to the edge of the solar system, NASA has left machines behind. Explore the maps, read their stories, then step inside the museum and photograph the biggest relics.
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Since the 1960s, NASA has sent robots and astronauts to other worlds. Almost none of that hardware came home. Landers stay where they land, and probes keep flying until the power runs out. This site is a museum for those machines: what they were built to do, what they discovered, and where they are now.
Space is far away and dangerous. Robots scout the way, test the ground and show us what to expect before people go.
Bringing hardware home costs far more than it is worth. When the power or fuel is gone, the machine stays.
Their data still fills textbooks, and a few devices, such as mirrors on the Moon, still work today.
Some relics are silent monuments. Others kept doing science for years, or still do. As exploration grows, the question is no longer only how we get there, but what we leave and what it costs. Explore it the way the museum curators do: through the picture.
Walk the museum hall and find the framed relics.
Frame one in the viewfinder and press C.
Place the photo on any wall or the floor. Q rotates it.
Walk into the photo to enter the relic’s room, then read its timeline and stations.
Press R to undo a placement or return to the museum.
THE COLLECTION IS WAITING
Photograph every relic and step inside each one to complete the collection.
You explored all ten relics. Every one of them is a monument to what exploration leaves behind.