Great Scott!
Science Museum
The bulk of the collection first held by the Science Museum came from the Royal Society of Arts and the Great Exhibition, and was part of what eventually became the Victoria and Albert Museum until its new building opened (1909), at which time the Science Museum became an independent institution.
Construction of its current home began in 1913, and opened to the public in stages from 1919-1928. The building was expanded upon several times, the last of which (the Wellcome Wing) was completed in 2000.
Black Arrow R4 1971 was part of the Black Arrow program, which launched four times. This particular spacecraft never made it to space, however, as the program was cancelled before it got a chance to take off.
Soyuz TMA-19M is a Russian-made descent module used to return Yuri Malenchenko, Tim Kopra, and Tim Peake back to Earth after their visit to the ISS in 2015. It dropped at 17,000 miles per hour and reached temperatures of more than 1500 degrees Celsius (2732 degrees Fahrenheit), leaving its surface burned and melted.
This tiny chunk of rock is a fragment of a larger piece of the Moon known as “Great Scott,” after astronaut David Scott, as he picked it up from the surface of the Moon in August 1971. It is made of olivine basalt, and formed billions of years ago, when single-celled life was just getting started on Earth. It is kept in a nitrogen-filled glass container, and has never been exposed to the Earth’s atmosphere.
The Apollo 10 command module (on loan from the National Air and Space Museum) launched with John Young, Thomas Stafford, and Eugene Cernan in 1969 on an orbital mission which served as practice for the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon that same year.
This is an STM (Structural Thermal Model) of the BepiColombo, a spacecraft made by the European Space Agency to explore Mercury, in order to test its resilience for its seven-year-long trip to the planet.
The Streetview Trike made by Google in order to create the panoramic views of streets so ubiquitous in Google Maps. Trikes are used to collect images from places where cars don’t fit, such as narrow streets, university campuses, and heritage sites. This was the first trike to be used in Europe, capturing images of places such as Pompeii, Stonehenge, and Versailles.
BESM-6 is a Supercomputer, thought to have been manufactured by the Russian Moscow Calculating Analytical Plant Machines. It was the last machine to be competitively equivalent to a Western Computer, the CDC 6600, and it was one of the last to be decommissioned.
The Clockmaker’s Museum is part of the Science Museum, and holds more than 600 watches, 90 clocks, 30 marine chronometers, mapping the history of clock and watch making in London from 1600 to the present day.
While made too late for the legend to hold true (19th century), this Memento Mori skull watch has long been associated with Mary Queen of Scots as being one given by her to Mary Seaton on her way to her execution. It is engraved all over with religious and mythological scenes, as well as Latin quotations.
Gold Colored Fox 