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Graphic by Jim Schoenfelder
Iowa City, Iowa 2007 ©
FACILITY DESCRIPTION
I. PARKING
Parking
is provided for anticipated use of 1,000 visitors per day or
approximately 400 cars per day assuming 2.5 visitors
per car.
2. MOON WALK
Visitors
walking to the main entrance of the museum will walk through
a simulated moonscape.
3. MARS ROVER
Visitors
may opt for a Mars rover ride to the main entrance through a
simulated Mars landscape.
4. FANTASY /REALITY MUSEUM
This
82,000 square foot, 7.4 million dollar facility will house an
active spaceport which shuttles space station crew
members to
and from the orbiting space station (in simulation) as well as
providing traveling and permanent exhibits
depicting space fact and fantasy through the ages for public visitors to
interact with.
5. SPACE PLANE ROCKETRY EXHIBIT
This
8,000 square foot, 1.5 million dollar facility shaped as a
space plane will house a rocketry exhibit depicting past,
present, and future means of space propulsion both fanciful
and factual. Visiting public will enter through a spaceport
boarding ramp from the museum. A short simulated space plane
ride and space station docking maneuver will be
available in
this exhibit.
6. SPACE STATION RING
This
70,000 square foot, 11.9 million dollar facility will house
the 500 student crew space colonization training center.
It is
the non~public section which simulates an 18 module shuttle
fuel tank ring, reconditioned for a space habitat,
spinning at 1g in earth orbit. It will contain all housing, recreational,
health service, food service, educational, and work
related
modules to sustain the crew indefinitely in orbit.
7. OBSERVATORY
This is a public star gazing platform from which
amateur astronomers may rent high powered telescopes.
8. PLANETARY SHUTTLES
Which carry colonists, in real-time simulation between remote
bases and the earth spaceport.
9. CONNECTING BRIDGE
Through which colonists access the remote bases from the space
station ring.
10. MOON BASE DOME
This
is a moonscape dome simulating the visual environment of an
early space colony base which trainee crew will
inhabit and
work for lengthy stays.
11. MARS BASE DOME
Colonists
will travel between 6 to 10 months in a planetary shuttle to
arrive at the Mars Base, which will simulate an
early colony
base on Mars where colonists will live and work for several
months before returning to the space station.
12. SATURN DOME & 13. JUPITER DOME
These
will be simulated orbiting stations with orbital views of the
planet while colonists work above.
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