NASA's Vision for Space Exploration Experience Trailer in MN

Images shot on Oct 6th, 7th & 11th, 2008.
Shot with a Nikon D40 & Fuji FinePix S6000fd

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Oct. 6th/7th, 2008

VSE Experience Trailer @ Jefferson Elementary	VSE Experience Trailer @ Jefferson Elementary / Jr Hi	VSE Experience Trailer @ Jefferson
VSE Experience Trailer	Designing a lunar base	viewing operations of a lunar base
VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer
VSE Experience Trailer closed?	VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer

Saturday Oct 11th, 2008

VSE Experience Trailer @ GLA	VSE Experience Trailer @ GLA	VSE Experience Trailer
VSE Experience is on Hold	VSE Experience is GO!	virtual globe display
VSE Experience Trailer	Lunar video globe	VSE Experience Trailer
VSE Experience Trailer	Laying out a Lunar Base	Laying out a Lunar Base
Laying out a Lunar Base	Laying out a Lunar Base	Laying out a Lunar Base
Laying out a Lunar Base	Habitation Element	Habitation Element
Small Pressurized Rover	Small Pressurized Rover	Power & Support Unit
PSU Facilities SPR Docking & Charging	Logistics Pantry	airlock
Solar Array 10kW Array	Power & Support Unit	PSU Facilities SPR Docking & Charging
Lunar Sample	Touching a lunar sample	VSE Experience Trailer
Video Projectors	VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer
VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer
video projectors	Lunar Base @ VSE Experience Trailer	Lunar Base @ VSE Experience Trailer
VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer
VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer
VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer	VSE Experience Trailer
Outside Exit @ VSE Experience Trailer	Great Lakes Aquarium Enterance hosts VSE Experience Trailer	Great Lakes Aquarium Enterance
Passport photo printer	Passport photo printer	Passport photo printer
Passport to the Future	Passport to the Future	Passport to the Future
Passport to the Future	Passport to the Future	Passport to the Future :Explore Moon Base Maze
Passport to the Future	Passport to the Future :Visas
space food display	space food	Space Food
Rock display	coloring sheets	coloring sheets
Today @ GLA	Gift Shop	VSE Experience Trailer

Vision for Space Exploration Experience Trailer

The Vision for Space Exploration Experience exhibit is housed in a 53-foot-long tractor and trailer rig. The exhibit is designed to share with visitors NASA's exploration goals to return to the moon and travel to Mars and beyond. The experience is intended to inspire visitors as they embark on a simulated journey into space.

The exhibit begins with a cosmic waiting area where visitors will learn what they will need to travel to the moon and Mars. Holographic video maps of the moon and Mars will allow visitors to learn more about their surfaces, the history of NASA’s research on each, and future plans for exploration. The second section of the exhibit features a hexagonal theater with an interactive floor that allows visitors to feel as if they are walking on the surfaces of the moon and Mars. This section of the exhibit also explains NASA’s future plans of traveling back to the moon to create a working environment that will help ensure safe future travel further into the solar system.

http://www.worldspaceweek.org/eventdetails.php?eventid=754 http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esmd/outreach/outreach_MN_State_2008.html

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