Museum staff to make room for Crew Compartment Trainer

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• Portions of Cold War Gallery will have limited access the week of Aug. 13 • Museum staff is making room for addition of Crew Compartment Trainer • CCT set to arrive in late August/early September

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DAYTON, Ohio -- Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (Air Force Museum Foundation photo by Dan Patterson)
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Museum staff to make room for Crew Compartment Trainer

Posted 8/10/2012 Updated 8/10/2012

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by Sarah Swan
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

8/10/2012 - DAYTON, Ohio -- Aircraft in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will be rearranged the week of Aug. 13 to make room for NASA's first Shuttle Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT-1). During this time, access to some aircraft may be limited. This includes, but is not limited to, the B-1, F-117, A-10 and F-16.

Three trainers were built to train astronauts for space missions - CCT-1, CCT-2 and a Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT), which also contained a crew compartment. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is scheduled to receive NASA's first Shuttle Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT-1) in late August/early September.

For more than 30 years, CCT-1 was housed in Johnson Space Center's Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF) and was used to train crews from STS-1 through STS-132 as a high-fidelity representation of the Space Shuttle Orbiter crew station for on-orbit crew training and engineering evaluations. Here, astronauts learned how to operate many of the orbiter sub-systems in more than 20 different classes.

After its arrival, museum and NASA technicians will offload the trainer, reassemble the interior and place it on interim display in the Cold War Gallery. Later, CCT-1 will be moved to a new Space Gallery in the museum's planned fourth building.

For more information about the CCT-1, please visit www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/cct.asp.
The National Museum of the United States Air Force is located on Springfield Street, six miles northeast of downtown Dayton. It is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day). Admission and parking are free. For more information about the museum, visit www.nationalmuseum.af.mil.

NOTE TO PUBLIC: For more information, please contact the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at (937) 255-3286.

NOTE TO MEDIA: For more information, please contact Sarah Swan at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Public Affairs Division at (937) 255-1283.