The Virginia Air and Space Science Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base. The museum also features an IMAX digital theater and offers summer aeronautic- and space-themed camps for children. The museum includes the Apollo 12 Command Module Yankee Clipper. Collection The museum's permanent collection is housed in a three-story glass atrium accessible from two exhibit floors with an additional catwalk level available for viewing suspended aircraft from above. Volunteers maintain an amateur radio exhibit displaying modern and historic radio equipment. The exhibit also participates in the Space Amateur Radio Experiment where visitors can periodically talk to astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Adventures in Flight gallery The gallery emphasizes hands-on and immersive experiments on flight concepts such as control surfaces and propeller design, and experiences such as flight simulators. The gallery also features numerous aircraft suspended from the roof in the main gallery. Most are restored and have close ties to flight research performed at area NASA, Air Force and Naval installations. A McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 passenger aircraft donated by AirTran Airways dominates the gallery. Visitors can sit in cockpit, first class and coach seats, and try their hand at take off and landing of a Boeing 717 flight simulator on board. Computer monitors are mounted in the first class passenger windows displaying left and right views of the flight simulator. B-24D "Liberator" heavy bomber which features an onboard film giving visitors the feeling that they are riding along with the pilots. 1903 Wright Flyer replica Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor cockpit replica Grumman A-6 Intruder Nose Section Bell P-39Q Airacobra Convair F-106B Delta Dart McDonnell-Douglas F-4E Phantom II Lockheed F-104C Starfighter General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon Nose Section F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle "HARV" Republic F-84F Thunderstreak Grumman-American Yankee Aircraft Hawker Siddeley Kestrel XV-6A KITFOX Model 4 Speedster Pershing II Missile Piper J-3 Cub Pitts Special Rutan VariEze homebuilt light aircraft Schleicher ASW 12 Glider Stearman N2S-3 Trainer UH-1M "Iroquois" Helicopter YF-16 "Fighting Falcon" Space Gallery Visitors enter through a room which simulates a crewed launch to Mars, telling the story of a rendezvous with a Mars Transit Vehicle and arrival at the planet where doors open up into the gallery. Apollo 12 Command Module Yankee Clipper, which completed 45 lunar orbits in 1969 Apollo Lunar Excursion Module Simulator