The monuments surround a pool and are dedicated to the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.

The stated mission of the museum is, “Preserving Achievement; Inspiring Innovation.” To accomplish this, the museum preserves artifacts, history, and individual stories related to the American space program, and showcases them to inspire a new generation to innovate, invent, explore, and discover.

Several volunteers including space pioneers created USSWOFF with the assistance of the City of Titusville, and the use of grants.

The city provided the park infrastructure; and the foundation raised funds for the monuments, plaques, mission insignia markers and other space-related items to carry out the riverwalk's space theme.

The event kicked off a week-long 30th anniversary celebration of the launch of Apollo 11 and the first crewed Moon landing.

The Gemini and Apollo monuments also include cast bronze hand prints of the surviving astronauts who flew those missions.