Lunar Lander Hancock County Welcome Center – Mississippi Mondays February 11, 2019

I wasn’t familiar with this attraction until I was digging through Roadside America’s Mississippi collection: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/location/ms/all.

If you didn’t know, Mississippi is home to the John C. Stennis Space Center https://www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis/home/index.htmlorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis_Space_Center. It’s not too far, 8.6 miles per Google Maps – https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lunar+Lander+Exhibit,+Interstate+10,+Pearlington,+MS/John+C.+Stennis+Space+Center,+MS/@30.3433933,-89.643588,9653m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x889ddb6e9b21d389:0xa4d9c87bed778a17!2m2!1d-89.5997095!2d30.3139659!1m5!1m1!1s0x889dc4c3b42067bf:0x443d5689865b14e!2m2!1d-89.5994225!2d30.3619837, from the Lunar Lander.

Some sites with more information on the Lunar Lander:

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/15377;

https://www.mikesroadtrip.com/lunar-lander-exhibit-westonia-ms/;

https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/pearlington-ms/attractions/lunar-lander-exhibit;

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/833876/lunar-lander-exhibit;

https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/X2J-1881130;

https://archive.org/details/00-068D-01 (Wayback Machine);

https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=108365 (HISTORICAL
MARKER DATABASE);

https://foursquare.com/v/mississippi-welcome-center/4b673584f964a5208c412be3;

https://humbledpie.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/lunar-lander-in-mississippi/;

https://www.yelp.com/biz/mississippi-welcome-center-pearlington-2;

https://visitmississippi.org/plan-your-trip/welcome-centers/;

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hancock-County-Welcome-Center/209520399489969;

http://www.visitinfinity.com/;

and http://hancockchamber.org/ (Hancock County Chamber of Commerce).

The footprints in some of the photos belong to Fred Haise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Haise.

I used to own a toy model of the Lunar Lander; believe it was this or a similar one: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/model-kit-lunar-module-148-0.

It’s on my Bucket List to visit the area and see the Lunar Lander.