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Article: SPACE ODYSSEY COUNTS DOWN TO LIFTOFF.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 3, 2003
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Byline: Joe Garner
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Once upon a summertime, when school vacation was growing stale, the moon and stars came to town.
Space Odyssey, the most ambitious project ever for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, is on schedule to open June 13, said Raylene Decatur, president and chief executive officer.
Its debut has been timed to fill the June lull for schoolchildren eager for something really exciting to do this summer:
Like pretending you're an astronaut cadet at a mission briefing.
Like making your own crater on a sandy lunarlike landscape.