October 25, 2023: One last stop before flying home……
We checked out this museum and similar to the Bradbury in Los Alamos, it is a Smithsonian affiliate and packed with amazing information.
The museum even covered the toys that were developed after the Manhattan Project that we remember playing with as children.
The outdoor portion of the museum had many planes, rockets, and other decommissioned vehicles.
There is a replica of the Trinity tower used in July 1945, when Los Alamos scientists successfully exploded the first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site, located in nearby Alamogordo, New Mexico.
This is a replica of “Fat Man”, which was the implosion-type bomb. It is next to a B29 which is the type of plane that carried the bomb to Japan.
The entrance foyer of this museum is the periodic table. So creative! There is so much in this museum that after two hours we were on overload.
We were greeted at the Albuquerque airport by a festive Southwest team, many in Halloween costumes. This had us smiling on the way home.