Article: 3, 2, 1 . . . BLASTOFF! MUSEUM ROCKETS INTO NEW PHASE WITH SPACE ODYSSEY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Erika Gonzalez

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Visitors enter Space Odyssey - the new permanent exhibition opening today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science - through a long, white-shelled corridor peppered with space photographs and covered in flashing, multicolored lights.

While the space-age corridor could serve as a set piece from Battlestar Galactica (or perhaps the laser-lighted terminal at Chicago's O'Hare airport), it also represents an important gateway for the museum - marking the institution's shift from a place that preserves the past to one that explores the future.

And from the first steps into Space Odyssey, it's clear the museum has moved ...

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