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Article: DENVER MUSEUM A SPACE ODYSSEY.(TRAVEL)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2003
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Byline: New York Times
DENVER -- The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has launched a project called Space Odyssey, featuring interactive exhibits and an all-digital planetarium dome.
Visitors emerge from an 86-foot corridor filled with images of the cosmos to experience life and work aboard a space shuttle. Hands-on exhibits include docking a model of the shuttle, and viewing multi-wavelength rays of the sun to learn how astronomers track sunspots and solar winds. Younger visitors can try on spacesuits, take the controls of a mock shuttle cockpit, or play in a Moon crater.
In the Mars Outpost exhibit, museumgoers can view the Candor Chasma, ...