EXPLORATION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Now that 2000 has arrived, what next? A lot. A whole new attraction for the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Seen here in an artist's rendering, the 12,000 square foot Exploration in the New Millennium attraction takes visitors on a two thousand year journey from 1000 AD to 3000 AD and shows how far we've come and how far we have to go.
From the Vikings to the Viking Lander on Mars, in one breath visitors see what a thousand years of exploration means, how it feels and how far our species can go in a millennium.
Then they step aboard the bridge of the Interplanetary Explorer, a spacecraft that delivers a briefing on the exploration destinations that await us in our solar system and into interstellar space.
Visitors see views of Mars in super high resolution 3D (!) from the Sojourner rover and interact with a microscope delivering a live view of a thin slice through a meteor that landed on Earth after being kicked off mars by a small asteroid impact.
Guests then have a chance to actually touch Mars itself. A finger sized chunk of the red planet is displayed where people can actually touch it knowing that their hand has bridged the interplanetary distance to our sister world.
Other exhibits abound. The Hubble telescope zooms in on fabulous images, interactive science stations greet eager minds, a children's area lets very young space kids play in a Kid's Space, the interactive polling Millennium Theater delivers live events and the finale of the attraction SpaceRace 3000 sends viewers a thousand years into the future to witness the greatest transportation breakthrough of all time.
(Opened February, 2000)
