Arts News: Space Gallery

Some food scraps, a Soviet toilet and a Skylark rocket re-enter the atmosphere at the Powerhouse Museum.

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So, you've got the itch to explore outer-space but lack the fortunes of a pop-star to purchase a ticket. Well fear not space tourist, you don't have to wait until the first Virgin Galactic flight launches from its pricey pad to check out what lies beyond, as the Powerhouse Museum unveil their brand new Space Gallery. The refurbished gallery opens on April 12th coinciding with Yuri's Night, the international day of space flight, and will welcome hordes of visitors to explore the entertaining and educational displays en-route to the mother of all space fantasies. The Zero Gravity Space Lab gives visitors the most out there space experience possible while still fixed to planet earth, when for six minutes they will encounter complete weightlessness.

Originally opened in 1988 and exhibiting space technologies of super powers like the US, USSR and the People's Republic of China, the updated exhibition includes new objects such as the Skylark sounding rocket from Woomera South Australia, an uneaten dinner from the Apollo 8 mission and a Soviet space toilet.

Visitors to the Space Gallery can also take a virtual tour through the International Space Station with astronauts Dr Andy Thomas and his wife Dr Sharron Walker as their guides.

Photo courtesy NASA.

Kat Harley

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