James Neiss/staff photographer/ 07/13/15. Niagara Falls, NY – John Faltyn, 17 of Wheatfield, tries his skills on the new Lunar Lander Simulator at the Niagara Aerospace Museum. The museum is open Wednesday thru Sunday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. In the mid 1960’s the U.S space program realized that there was a need for a way to train Astronauts to land on the Moon. NASA, with no funds available and time running out, went to industry for help. Bell Aerospace offered to begin the program immediately with company funds. The result was the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle which was a great success. The pilot of the first Moon landing, Neil Armstrong, stated that the moon landing would have been a ‘crash landing’ without his LLTV flight training. In order to share the history of this WNY success, the Niagara Aerospace Museum has been pursuing the acquisition of a Apollo Lunar Lander Simulator. The Museum’s diligent staff has located a Lunar Lander Simulator at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. A mutual agreement between the museums resulted in the installation on the simulator on July 1. This simulator gives the public another reason to be proud of the rich aviation and space exploration contribution made in Western New York. Visit the museum and see if you have the right stuff and land the Lunar Module on the moon. The museum is open Wednesday thru Sunday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

You are here: Home / Photos / James Neiss/staff photographer/ 07/13/15. Niagara Falls, NY – John Faltyn, 17 of Wheatfield, tries his skills on the new Lunar Lander Simulator at the Niagara Aerospace Museum. The museum is open Wednesday thru Sunday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. In the mid 1960’s the U.S space program realized that there was a need for a way to train Astronauts to land on the Moon. NASA, with no funds available and time running out, went to industry for help. Bell Aerospace offered to begin the program immediately with company funds. The result was the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle which was a great success. The pilot of the first Moon landing, Neil Armstrong, stated that the moon landing would have been a ‘crash landing’ without his LLTV flight training. In order to share the history of this WNY success, the Niagara Aerospace Museum has been pursuing the acquisition of a Apollo Lunar Lander Simulator. The Museum’s diligent staff has located a Lunar Lander Simulator at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. A mutual agreement between the museums resulted in the installation on the simulator on July 1. This simulator gives the public another reason to be proud of the rich aviation and space exploration contribution made in Western New York. Visit the museum and see if you have the right stuff and land the Lunar Module on the moon. The museum is open Wednesday thru Sunday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.