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Scotland to host space show



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Published Date: 27 May 2008
SCOTLAND has landed a blockbuster exhibition charting the history of space exploration and its impact on everyday life.
The City Art Centre in Edinburgh will host a major celebration in the autumn covering the space race and its influence on science, fiction, fashion and household items.

The exhibition, staged by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London this year, is made up of more than 300 intriguing objects from the museum's own collection as well as loans from around the world.

It will feature a piece of a Mars meteorite, a Cosmonaut suit belonging to Russia's Yuri Gidzenko, a model of SpaceShipOne (designed to take tourists to space), packets of NASA space food and a Fisher Space Pen the pen that defies gravity).





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  • Last Updated: 26 May 2008 9:44 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Space science
 
1

Jardine,

27/05/2008 04:15:42
Will this exhibition have anything to say about why Britain missed out on the Space Race and resigned from the exclusive club of cosmic powers, in the 20th century equivalent of failing to send explorers to the New World or neglecting to build railways?
2

Boy Wonder,

27/05/2008 08:54:56
Dates of the Exhition would have been nice, instead of just "in the Autumn".
3

Neil,

Glasgow 27/05/2008 12:56:20
I agree about dates.

Missing out on the previous space race could be a blessing in disguise. If, instead of doing a conventional space race we were to offer to fund X-Prizes for the first British company to launch a shuttle & return it 3 times in a month we could step into the lead. This, it has been calculated would require a prize of £1 billion, just over 2 years of our contribution to ESA (& would cost nothing if the Jeremiahs were right & nobody won).

 

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