This exhibition, which opens on 14 June, showcases one of the UK’s largest private collections of space artefacts from human space exploration.

The Space Vault Exhibition contains rare and historic objects brought back to Earth from the lunar surface, low-Earth orbit and outer space, from NASA’s Apollo missions and the Soviet space era, to the American and Russian space shuttle programmes, International Space Station and SpaceX.

The exhibition brings together 12 curated stories of human space exploration ‘above the Earth and to the Moon’ via immersive visuals and unique artefacts.

Highlights of the display include:

• The mission checklists that saved the crew of Apollo 13 when its oxygen tank exploded
• Commander Dave Scott’s spacesuit umbilical through which he communicated his first words as he stepped onto the surface of the Moon  
• Lunar dust from the Hadley Rille landing site of Apollo 15
• Material from the Apollo 11 Command module
• A rare Soviet pressure suit
• Part of the nose cone of the first Starship to reach space

Entry to the Space Vault Exhibition is included in the admission price.