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Garden in 2004.  A rocket garden is a display of missiles,
sounding rockets, or space launch vehicles usually in an outdoor
setting. The proper form of the term usually refers to the
Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.[1]
With rare exceptions, rockets are expendable, so rockets in
displays have not been flown. As in the case of the Saturn V,[2]
later planned missions were cancelled, leaving unneeded rockets
for the museums. For displays of the early American space
hardware (for Project Mercury and Project Gemini), surplus
missiles have been painted to look like manned space launchers.
Also, engineering test articles (such as the Pathfinder space
shuttle stack in Huntsville) or purpose-built full-scale
replicas end up in rocket gardens.  Incomplete list of rocket
gardens[edit]  See also[edit]    • rock garden, likely the
inspiration of the term "rocket garden"   •