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New York: ‘Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration’

MiamiHerald.com 10/30/2011 15:59
New York: ‘Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration’


The American Museum of Natural History is preparing an new exhibit to open next month, Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration, offering a vision of the future of space travel.



The exhibition features a re-creation of a lunar habitat, a model of a space elevator rising up from the surface of the Moon and one of the world’s largest color holograms depicting 1,000 exoplanets. Missions described in the exhibition were once limited to the realm of science fiction, but today are discussed by leading scientists and engineers: mining for rare gasses on the Moon, landing on or deflecting a potentially deadly asteroid, traveling to Mars—and perhaps even establishing colonies there.

Details: Beyond Planet Earth runs Nov. 19 through Aug. 12; www.amnh.org or 212-769-5100.


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