The Countdown has begun…
This summer the Rocket Tower at the award winning National Space Centre will be reaching new heights as the most exciting development in the Centre’s nine year history launches: Space Race.
Lifting off on 17th July 2010, Space Race will coincide with the leading Leicester tourist attraction welcoming its 2 millionth visitor. It is the culmination of over two years of work to create a new experience that will take visitors on an amazing journey through the imagination of man and onto surface of the moon.
Deck One is the start of the journey where visitors young and old can encounter real rockets, sit back in the Edwardian cinema to see the first sci-fi movie ever made, take part in the interactive Space Race quiz or even blast off into space with the ultimate water rocket challenge. Will you back the US or the USSR in this adventure into space?
Deck Two includes not one but two attraction highlights within Space Race; the Gagarin Experience and the Silo. Within the Gagarin Experience visitors become
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, as they sit inside the Vostok Capsule and blast off into space.
The Silo is one of the most technologically advanced interactive experiences in the UK and in an attraction dedicated to the futuristic space industry you wouldn’t expect anything less. Visitors will be immersed in an audio visual experience that will whisk them back to 1950s Russia and the dawn of the Space Race.
Deck Three will allow visitors to join Neil and Buzz as Apollo 11 lands on the moon. Along with the last piece of genuine moon rock to be returned to Earth by Eugine Cernan on the last mission in 1972, visitors can also challenge themselves to pilot the “Eagle” onto the lunar surface in the only simulator of its kind outside America!
The creation of these three brand new interactive floors within the iconic Rocket Tower will make a visit to the National Space Centre a must for this summer holiday period.
“Could you sit in a metal box measuring just 2.3m across for 89 minutes while travelling 315km above the Earth’s surface at 28,000kph? Imagine your heart racing at over 157bpm and you are the first person to ever travel in a spacecraft that only has a 50% success rate! I can’t wait to climb in and try it and I know all our visitors will be blown away by this.”
Gagarin Experience – Malika Andress, Head of Marketing, National Space Centre
The National Space Centre opened to the public in June 2001 and has welcomed over 1.7 million visitors, including over 400,000 school children.
For opening times and directions, please visit www.spacecentre.co.uk
COMPETITION
Enter Now to win an all day Family Pass to the Space Centre!
Q1: What is the Tower at the National Space Centre called?
a) Eiffel Tower b) Rocket Tower c) Leaning Tower
Q2: A high-altitude partial pressure suit will be on display at the Centre this summer, but for which animal?
a) Monkey b) Cow c) Dog
Send answers in via email to: competitions@whatcanwedotoday.co.uk or by post to: What Can We Do Today, 89 Loughborough Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, LE12 7AP.
Don’t forget to include your Name, Address, Email address and Telephone Number
- First one picked out of the hat wins
- Competition closes: Monday 2nd August 2010
- The winner will be announced on our website and on our Twitter page
