Looming over the northeast corner of town and nicknamed "the golden cube," this four-story museum is surrounded by historic missiles, and holds excellent exhibits on space exploration. ln Alamogordo, a dusty town at the base of Lincoln National Forest's mountains an hour east of Las Cruces, this museum has interesting exhibits that take you from the history of Indigenous awareness of the stars to Robert H Goddard's liquid fuel rocket test in 1926 to the atomic bomb and modern space tourism.
In Hall of Fame hails pioneers from William Congreve, whose rockets were fired at the Battle of Waterloo, to Neil Armstrong, while other displays cover New Mexico’s potential role in commercial space flight. The adjoining New Horizons Dome Theater (adult/child $8/6) screens giant-screen movies and has laser planetarium shows (adult/child $6/5).
