{"id":6421,"date":"2016-09-18T15:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/?page_id=6421"},"modified":"2025-01-26T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:10:57","slug":"james-s-mcdonnell-prologue-room","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/james-s-mcdonnell-prologue-room\/","title":{"rendered":"James S. McDonnell Prologue Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"txt\">The <strong>James S. McDonnell Prologue Room<\/strong> in<strong> St.&nbsp;Louis<\/strong>, <span class=\"section-info-text\"><strong>Missouri<\/strong><\/span> tells this panoramic story of more than eight decades of aviation progress, from biplanes to space travel. Scale models, dioramas, paintings and photographs depict such important events as the first flight around the world in 1924, the first take-off of a jet fighter from a U.S.&nbsp;Navy carrier in 1946, the first aircraft to land at the South Pole in 1956, and the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Earth in 1962<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James S. McDonnell Prologue Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boeing-St. Louis headquarters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/content\/dam\/boeing\/boeingdotcom\/company\/tours\/pdf\/tours_stl_map.pdf\">Building 100<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"section-info-text\">100 Airport Road<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"section-info-text\">St. Louis<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"section-info-text\">Missouri 63135<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/north-america-2\/\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boeing.com\/company\/tours\/prologue-room.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.boeing.com\/company\/tours\/prologue-room.page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:PrologueRoom@Boeing.com\">PrologueRoom@Boeing.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"section-info-text\">+1 (314) 232-6896<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"txt\">June, July and August<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span class=\"txt\">Monday &#8211; Friday 09:00 &#8211; 16:00<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span class=\"txt\">Closed weekends &amp; July 4<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Free admission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From HWY 70:<br>\nExit Hwy 170 North, exit Airport Road; turn left onto Airport Road. Turn right at third signal light into Main Entrance. The Prologue Room is in Bldg 100.<br>\nFrom HWY 270:<br>\nExit Hwy 170 South; exit Airport Road; turn right onto Airport Road. Turn right at second signal light into Main Entrance. The Prologue Room is in Bldg 100.<br>\nFrom Lindbergh Blvd:<br>\nTurn east on McDonnell Blvd; turn left onto Airport Road. Turn left at first signal light into Main Entrance. The Prologue Room is in Bldg 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d398282.50315496617!2d-90.62427898318118!3d38.750352!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x4b9fc6ebc22694df!2sJames+S.+McDonnell+Prologue+Room!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1474204074535\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/james-s-mcdonnell-prologue-room\/james-s-mcdonnell-prologue-room-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/James-S.-McDonnell-Prologue-Room.jpg\" alt=\"James S. McDonnell Prologue Room\" class=\"wp-image-6422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/James-S.-McDonnell-Prologue-Room.jpg 250w, https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/James-S.-McDonnell-Prologue-Room-240x144.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Gemini Capsule (replica)<p><\/p>\n<p>Mercury Capsules<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prologue Room portrays more than a century of aviation progress through the innovative airplanes and spacecraft the men and women of Boeing and its heritage companies built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors can view large-scale models of the F-15E Strike Eagle, F\/A-18 Super Hornet, AH-64D Apache and T-7A Red Hawk. An unmanned display features an operational ScanEagle and a scale model of the MQ-25 Stingray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wind-tunnel-size models include Boeing\u2019s newest 787 Dreamliner, C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft, a U.S. Navy Blue Angel and Air Force One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Displays of rockets and missiles include full-scale models of a Harpoon radar-guided missile, a JDAM smart weapon and a Small Diameter Bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the exhibit\u2019s center are full-size engineering mockups of the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft that carried America&#8217;s first astronauts into space. Also on display are models of the Space Shuttle, Skylab and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James S. 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