Cook AST Center Rocket Garden

The Cook Arts Science and Technology Center at Navarro College in Corsicana Texas no longer has several historical NASA artifacts and other items on display. Here are photographs of the former items.

A Jupiter Missile from the late 50's or early 60's.
For more information about the Jupiter missile visit this wikipedia article about the
Jupiter IRBM.

The first stage of the missile with rocket engine.

This Jupiter Missile went to the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field in Dallas Texas.

An Assured Crew Return Vehicle (ACRV) prototype from the ISS. The ACRV predated the Russian involvement in the Space Station. It was planned to provided immediate crew return capability between Shuttle flights.
This was a mockup put in the Texas A&M wave tank to practice crew recovery using personnel unfamiliar with the spacecraft (Coast Guard).

Inside of the ACRV.

The ACRV mockup is now in a cow pasture in Corsicana Texas.

A full size mock up of the European Space Agency's Laboratory Module for the International Space Station.

Inside of the ISS ESA module.

The ESA module has been crushed and scrapped!

An Apollo boiler plate capsule.
Visit the "Field Guide to American Spacecraft" for more info about Apollo Boilerplates.
Or look at the wikipedia entry on boilerplates.

A Mercury boiler plate capsule.
Click here for more info about Mercury Boilerplates.
Or look at the wikipedia entry on boilerplates.

These boilerplates as far as I know, went to the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska

A mock up of Canada's Space Shuttle Robot Manipulator Arm.

A magnet from the now defunct SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER PROJECT.
Read more about it in this wikipedia entry on the Superconducting Super Collider