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US Space Park

Introduction / Guidebook The Space Age for Real Exhibit Layout The US Space Park The US Space Park (continued) Press Releases & Gallery I Gallery II Project Mercury & Remarks Epilogue

...I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.   President John F. Kennedy May 25, 1961 Gemini - Saturn V - Agena - LEM - Retrorockets - Splashdown. Our eyes were on the Moon and we had a whole new vocabulary for The Space Age. Explore the U.S. Space Park of the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair and reacquaint yourself with the Space Race in Bradd Schiffman's Feature presentation. The dramatic vehicles that are carrying the United States into the Space Age are on display. View the Transportation Area Map Locate It: T7 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Defense sponsor this exhibit in the area surrounding the Hall of Science. Among the displays are a Project Mercury spaceship which has orbited the earth, a Gemini two-man spacecraft, a model of the Apollo, which will carry men to the moon, and a Mercury capsule in which youngsters may take a simulated space ride. Also shown are an X-15 rocket plane, lunar and interplanetary satellites, and Thor-Delta, Atlas and Titan II rockets. College science majors act as guides. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book