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Movies: Making Magic (STEM in 30 Season 11 Episode 5)

March 01, 2025
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Películas: Haciendo magia (STEM in 30, temporada 11, episodio 5)

March 01, 2025

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A museum gallery with spacecraft on display. From left to right, the viewer can see a lunar module, satellites, two capsules, a Viking Lander model, and Spaceship One.

Boeing Milestones in Flight Hall

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A display inside the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery, includes a balloon basket with weights on it. To the right is a picture of Robert Goddard, a white middle-aged scientist next to some related objects.

Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight

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In the foreground of the image, airplanes hang from the ceiling and model aircraft seem to float in exhibit cases. In the background is a brightly lit section with "Do you want to fly?" written on the wall. Interactives for children peek through the business of the foreground, including a model cockpit and hot air balloon.

Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight

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A curved domed capsule on the left side of the image, with other technology hanging to the right.

Futures in Space

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From their vantage point inside the gallery, the viewer is surrounded by World War I airplanes that are hung to look as though they're flying and alighting. On the walls surrounding the planes are contextualizing artifacts.

World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation

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Inside the blue World War I gallery, a visitor is faced with a flight suit. Behind it, a variety of biplanes hang from the ceiling or sit on the floor. Around the walls, are display cases of additional artifacts and panels that add contextualizing info.

World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation

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An empty museum gallery with various air and spacecraft. On the left wall is a wind turbine, two rockets, and a plane. In the middle is an electronic banner, showing John Glenn.

Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall

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The entrance to a Museum gallery labeled "Pioneers of Flight." Hanging above the entrance is "Spirit of St. Louis," a small silver airplane with a propeller. Below it are metal cases. There are other aircraft hanging from the ceiling or mounted as in flight.

Barron Hilton Pioneers in Flight

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A grey spacecraft stands like a crab on four legs with a large "body" on a floor simulating the floor of Mars. Behind it is an image of Mars, and two capsules used for human spaceflight.

Viking Lander at the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall

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World War I era biplanes overlap each other in the viewers siteline in this photograph taken inside the gallery, giving the effect of a dogfight or planes taking off for their missions.

Looking Up in the World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation

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A silver plane with a propeller, the Spirit of St. Louis, hangs above the entrance to a gallery. On the shiny terrazzo floor below is a compass rose. In the background, is the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery. The viewer can see at least three additional aircraft, including a biplane and Amelia Earhart's red airplane, as well as additional artifacts.

Pioneers of Flight

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The photograph immerses the viewer in the World War I gallery. Immediately in front of them is a World War I uniform and an engine with prongs radiating out from a circular center. Above the case with those artifacts, two biplanes hang as though in flight.

World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation

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White capsule with blue trim at base, painted feather logo, "Blue Origin" lettering in blue, and a U.S. flag all near the hatch sits in the foreground of the image, followed by a variety of technology--much used in commercial spaceflight.

Crew Capsule for Blue Origin New Shepard in Futures in Space

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A spacecraft stands on a tripod of legs, with golden foil at the bottom, and a silver shape at the top. It is surrounded by a Museum gallery, including a Mercury 7 capsule, an electronic side, and a hanging satellite.

LM-2 in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall