![]() Originally developed as a military aid to navigate the globe, policymakers soon saw the civilian benefits to navigation satellite systems. The data is then interpreted by ubiquitous computer software programs. Instead of paper maps to get from one place to another, we now depend on collections of orbiting satellites that relay highly accurate positioning, time, and navigation information to ground station complexes. The Space Age has transformed the way we rely on technology, particularly how we find our way. True astronaut aficionados will be able to walk through a back-up of the first American space station, Skylab, to see how the earliest inhabitants of low Earth orbit lived. The selection of spacesuits will begin with the training suit of the first suit designed to allow an astronaut into open space and continue with prototypes representing decades of design to tell the stories of design, materials, and aesthetics that have changed what a spacesuit looks like since the 1960s. A section on spacesuits will focus on how they were built as human-shaped spacecraft. The human spaceflight unit in the gallery will focus on those who have made astronauts’ work in space safe and fruitful. What is often unseen is the fact that the labor required to send humans into space requires armies of specialists, technicians, engineers, and physicians to keep spacefarers alive and productive in space. When one speaks of the Space Age, naturally, astronauts come to mind. This early artifact of the Space Age will be surrounded by visual images and text that offer our visitors quick clues about the past, present, and future of the Space Age.Ī section on spacesuits, like Aleksei Leonov’s training Berkut Flight Suit, will represent and tell stories of decades of design, materials, and aesthetics. The introduction to the gallery will beckon visitors with the sight of an illuminated star that once stood at the “Astroland” amusement park in Coney Island, New York. ![]() We hope that they will walk away with the understanding that there are consequences and vulnerabilities to the Space Age technologies that challenge assumptions of convenience. The exhibition team’s aspiration is that visitors will leave the exhibition with new questions and ideas after learning the history of the Space Age through objects and human stories. The gallery will encourage meaningful intergenerational conversations among families. ![]() To tell the story of the Space Age, the new Raytheon Technologies Living in the Space Age exhibition will share how the Space Age impacts the lives of people worldwide, through the stories of people and objects which brought it about.
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