New Mexico Museum of Space History, Space exploration museum in Alamogordo, United States.

The New Mexico Museum of Space History is a museum in Alamogordo that focuses on space exploration through exhibits about missions, rockets, satellites, and aerospace technological progress. The displays span multiple floors and document how space travel technology has developed.

In 1973, Alamogordo mayor Dwight Ohlinger proposed a space hall of fame modeled on the Baseball Hall of Fame, sited in Alamogordo because much space-program development work was done in the Tularosa Basin. Architects Charles E. Nolan and Associates designed the golden cube, dedicated October 5, 1976, with the first fifteen inductees; it opened November 23, 1976. Renamed Space Center in 1987 and New Mexico Museum of Space History in 2001.

The International Space Hall of Fame honors those who shaped space exploration, while a memorial garden pays tribute to astronauts who died during missions. These spaces show how people acknowledge both achievements and sacrifices in the story of space travel.

The museum is housed in a building with multiple exhibition levels that are easy to move through. Plan to spend several hours to explore the exhibits at a comfortable pace.

Ham, the chimpanzee who in 1961 became the first great ape in space, is buried at the museum in front of the flagpoles; he died in 1983. The museum also holds mock-ups and training units of satellites, the Space Shuttle and the Apollo Lunar Module, whose originals remain in space or on the Moon.