A Journey to Our Future - Exhibit Content by Section
The exhibit content in “SPACE: A Journey to Our Future” is organized into four main areas: 1) Dare to Dream, 2) A Dream Come True, 3) Living the Dream and 4) Dream of Tomorrow.
Dare to Dream Throughout the centuries countless dreamers have dared to find the answers to our very existence, shaping humankind's knowledge of our place in the universe. This exhibit pays tribute to those dreamers and their amazing achievements and will start us on our own journey of discovery. We are introduced to amazing observations by ancient civilizations and by contemporary astronomers, writers, artists and scientists.
Visitors will meet Galileo, who invites them into a re-creation of his workshop and urges them to peer through his telescope to view fuzzy images of Jupiter and its moons. View the 1960s TV broadcast of Walt Disney and Dr. Wernher Von Braun, one of the world's first and foremost rocket engineers, as they introduced the country to the wonders of space travel.
A Dream Come True To this day we are still awed by the image of the Earth as seen from the Moon during the Apollo program. For the first time we saw our fragile place in the universe and we could not help but be changed forever. This exhibit reminds us of that remarkable achievement and introduces us to people who made that dream come true.
Visitors step onto the metal grating of the launch gantry beside a giant section of a re-created Saturn V rocket, the world's first true spacecraft. Exhibit-goers can feel the rocket shake and rattle as it is prepares for lift-off.
Living the Dream This series of exhibit open our eyes to the wonders of discovery that are taking place right now, all around us. Today, all over the world, people and organizations are creating and envisioning new tools and ideas that are helping us unlock many secrets to the Universe and that will propel us into our future adventures in Space. These people, and we as a planet, are truly living the dream.
Multimedia, graphic and interactive displays describe many of NASA's current studies in areas such as robonauts, deep space probes, next-generation telescopes, living in space and space tourism.
Dream of Tomorrow The final portion of the exhibit opens our eyes to the wonders that our future holds, and introduces us to today's dreamers who - like those before them - dare to imagine what secrets the Cosmos holds. Our journey into that future has many destinations and we will become true inhabitants of the universe if we continue to dream of tomorrow.
Exhibit-goers board the Mars Orbiting Space Station in the year 2032 on a mission to the Red Planet. A Mars astronaut welcomes visitors to a Base Camp facsimile on the rocky, dusty planet. Visitors actually climb along outcroppings before encountering the leader of base expedition team who invites them inside the living quarters modules.
The exit area makes use of the latest projection technologies to introduce visitors to the dreamers of today's generation. The large-scale video screen installation is devoted to questions about the Universe and our existence: How big is the universe? How did the universe begin? Are we alone? Who are the next discovers? What will we explore?
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