Day 4: May 2, 2011 The Infinity Room & Beyond |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The screen of the TV in the photo has been cut away to show a movie of various space and rocket scenes. By pure chance, the scene I captured in my photo is of the adult Neil Armstrong gazing from his space helmet. The flag on the wall traveled aboard Apollo 11 and, although these actual units did not, so did cameras like the three in the cabinet. Thank goodness they got the size down before they started putting those things in cell phones. The Infinity Room is one of the few things I distinctly remember from my first visit. I remember not being very impressed. A walkway passes through the center of a room where lights and mirrors provide an infinite view in every direction. If anything, the "technology" is even less impressive today than in the '70s but it is really kind of cool and I found myself looking forward to it. The exit, like that of any well designed museum, is through a gift shop where a rack of Estes Rockets stands among the books and tee shirts. They looked exactly the same as the ones that friends and I sent skyward in 1964 or so. I probably should have bought one. I don't think I've launched a rocket or watched a console TV since man landed on the moon. |
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