Gateway to Space: The Exhibition comes to South Africa
SANDTON - Have you ever wondered what it's like in space? Gateway to Space: The Exhibition will show you ...
Have you ever wondered what it’s like in space?
Gateway to Space: The Exhibition introduces audiences to the people, technologies and circumstances that made human dreams to enter the realities of suborbital flight, moon missions and sustained life in space possible. The exhibition offers an impressive collection of hardware to enlighten and engage visitors while instilling a sense of awe.
Among the highlights of the exhibition are a real moon rock, a life-size Mir Space Station core module, a Sputnik-1 model and an Apollo capsule model.
“This exhibition is shipped from Budapest in 20 shipping containers, making this the biggest exhibition yet to travel to South Africa and, to date, almost a million people have flocked to see this exhibition”, said Minette Ferreira, spokesperson for Media24.
“One of the many highlights of the exhibition is a replica of the Mir Space Station core module built at an angle to give some effect of vertigo. You can walk inside and also view a model of a pilot station.”
Other exciting parts of the exhibition include four original space suits, the original Multi-Axis Trainer (Mat) based on a Mercury-era astronaut training scenario, a glimpse of a scale-model space toilet, the food astronauts eat in space and a model of the Orion capsule, which is designed for future missions to Mars.
From youngsters seeing these items for the first time to the older generation who followed the space race, Gateway to Space invites visitors to set their imagination free, cross thresholds and glimpse entirely new portals to mankind’s adventure in space.
Specific time slots will be allocated for visitors to walk around this exhibition and experience a journey to space, as well as enjoy additional interactive sessions.
Gateway to Space: The Exhibition will be hosted at the Sandton Convention Centre from 1 June to 31 July. Single tickets for adults cost R180; single tickets for children between the ages 18 months and 18 years cost R120; and family packages cost R520 for a family of four.
School packages, which include a free ticket for one adult for every booking of 20 pupils, are also available.
Details: tospace@megatrav.co.za for more information or to book. All tickets (excluding school packages) are available at Computicket; www.gatewaytospace.co.za
WIN: To stand a chance to win a double ticket to the exhibition, send an email to competition@caxton.co.za with your name, surname and contact number and answer this easy question: Who assembled the Gateway to Space Exhibition?
