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Space Exploration(太空飛行探索廳)

Space Exploration(太空飛行探索廳)

Description

The Space Exploration Hall offers an experiential and investigative journey into advanced space science and technology in modern days. It focuses on sparking interest and enhancing learning through immersive experiences. The engaging surrounding recreates the dream of colonization on Mars and the reality of space travel in the future. It also highlights Taiwan’s evolving role and position in the global space technology race.

The exhibition uses space travel as its overarching narrative, covering themes like “Mars Colonization,””Space Living,””Advanced Space Technology,””Principles of Flight Evolution,” and “Taiwan’s Space Development.” It features a large-format projection recreating the surface on the Mars, a spherical immersive projection theater highlighting the display, and a virtuality-and-reality blending light sculpture showcasing flight evolution.

AR interactive experience connect visitors to cutting-edge international space exploration, while a 4D dynamic space flight theater inspires dreams of space exploration. Electrochromic film technology is integrated in multimedia to present Taiwan’s space technology research and development. We cordially invite you and your family to visit and experience the sixth floor of the National Science and Technology Museum.

The exhibition is suitable for the general public and families.

The exhibition hall also features paid interactive activities: “Roaming on the Moon” and “4D Space Flight Experience,” which you are welcome to experience for a fee. 



 

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Space Exploration(太空飛行探索廳)

Focus

  • LEGO Perseverance Rover
    LEGO Perseverance Rover
    The Perseverance is a next-generation Mars rover built by NASA, which successfully landed on Mars in 2021. The Perseverance carries 7 scientific instruments, 23 cameras, and two microphones. It also carries a helicopter named Ingenuity, which works with the Perseverance to conduct scientific research. On April 20, 2021, the Perseverance achieved in converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, marking the first time oxygen to be produced outside of Earth. On September 6, 2021, the Perseverance successfully obtained its first Martian rock sample.
  • F-104 Star Fighter
    F-104 Star Fighter
    The F-104 Star Fighter is a single-engine, all-weather supersonic interceptor/ fighter designed by Lockheed. It is one of the second generation jet fighters in the Century Series fighters of the U.S. Air Force. The F-104, without any external load, can accelerate from a cruising speed of Mach 0.9 to Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) in just 67 seconds. TheF-104G can reach Mach 2.2.
  • HTTP 3A Rocket
    HTTP 3A Rocket
    The “HTTP-3A” is a two-stage rocket and the world’s first hybrid rocket with a flight navigation control system. The museum displays a single-stage prototype rocket model provided by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

Location

6F
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