This provides a visual map of the exhibition gallery. It helps teachers highlight major themes and key objects to students before the visit. Most of the key objects are hyperlinked to the Museum Online Collection Database for easy reference. It also feature relevant online resources on teaching and learning on the topic of Space.

1. Space exhibition pre-visit walkthrough

2. Space exhibition walkthrough
Support material developed for teachers
to prepare students’ visit of the Space exhibition
Space
Exhibition
entrance
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3. Space exhibition has 9 sections:-
5 1. Timeline
4
5 2. Lift off!
3. The dawn of the Space Age
3 4. In space to stay
5. Living and working in space
6. Home away from home
5
from lower level 7. Satellites at your service
To lower level 8. The world in space
9. Exploring the solar system
Note: Follow this order and you will get the best out of
the exhibition.
SPACE 8
7 6
level 1 To upper level
9 Take a peek
AVs
6
Note:
The Take a peek AVs allow you to find out
what’s happening on the upper level if you From upper level
can’t go upstairs:
1. Mission Control Houston 2
2. Habitation module
3. Zero Gravity Space Lab 1

4. Timeline
1. Timeline: Dreams of spaceflight and the origins of rocketry
It is on your left as you come through the Transport exhibition.

5. original
Goddard
rocket
engine
Goddard rocket replica
2. Lift off!
The earliest liquid fuel rockets were developed in the 1920s. These paved the way for
the massive launch vehicles of today.

6. Skylark rocket
The Skylark rocket was the most widely used sounding rocket at the Woomera Rocket Range.
Between 1957 and 79, more than 200 Skylarks were launched from Woomera carrying Australian,
British, American and European research instruments and experiments.

7. F-1 engine Sputnik-1
Soyuz 4-5
Vanguard-1
Moon
rock
Space Shuttle
Zero gravity
Space Lab
3. The Dawn of the Space Age
This is on the upper level under the F-1 engine. This section looks the beginnings of the
Space Age and some the important early milestones in space exploration, including
the Moon rock.

8. The real trip to the
Moon AV
Running time: 3 min
Moon rock
This Moon rock was collected by the Apollo-16 crew in April 1972. It weighs 89 grams and is 3.9
billion years old. The AV is a compilation of original footage from the Apollo-11 mission to the Moon.

9. 4. In space to stay
Find out more about the early US and Soviet space stations that came before the
International Space Station (ISS).

10. Space Shuttle
5. Living and working in space
What is it like to live and work in the weightless environment of space? Enter the Space
Shuttle and travel to the ISS to find out.

11. Inside the shuttle you can learn about the Space Shuttle and its many roles. Also, listen to
astronauts Dr Andy Thomas and Dr Shannon Walker talk about the work of the ISS.

12. Medal that
commemorate Captain
Cook's Second Voyage
in 1772
Heat-resistant tiles
Federation
commemorative medal
Objects on display in the shuttle include heat-resistant tiles and thermal blanket material
used to protect Space Shuttle from the heat of re-entry. Also, you can see the two
medallions carried on different Space Shuttle missions.

13. In the replica habitation module find out what it is like to live and work in the weightless
environment of space. How do astronauts sleep? And how do they go to the bathroom?

14. On the bridge connecting the habitation module and the Zero Gravity Space Lab, you will see the
Manned Manoeuvring Unit. This is a self-contained backpack that allows an astronaut to move
freely in space.

15. The Zero Gravity Space Lab uses special optical effects to create the illusion of weightlessness as
if you were in space.

16. The Zero Gravity Lab experience is six minutes long. It is accompanied by the commentary from Dr
Andy Thomas and Dr Shannon Walker about the research work carried out on the ISS and why it is
important to people back on Earth.

17. Take the stairs and go back to the lower level.

18. Space
food
Space
Space Soviet toilet
Sokol
shuttle flight
spacesuit
flight suit
suit
6. Home away from home
This section looks at some of the solutions to the problems of living and working in
space. It is located under the habitation module.

19. Soyuz re-entry
module
NAZ-3
emergency kit
A Soyuz re-entry module is used for emergency evacuations on the ISS while the NAZ-3
emergency kit was designed for use with the Soyuz spacecraft in the event of an off-course landing
in an inhospitable area or in water.

20. Space
debris
Satellite
thermal
blanket
7. Satellites at your service
This section looks at the applications satellites and the services they provide for us here
on Earth.

21. 8. The world in space
This section highlights some of the national and multinational space programs operating
today, with a special focus on Australia.

22. Black
Arrow
payload
fairings
ARC
experiment
Project Wresat AV
Running time: 4 min.
In the sub-themes about Australia’s place in space you can find out about the Woomera Rocket
Range, Australia’s role in space tracking and Australian satellites like WRESAT and FEDSAT.

23. Lunokhod-2
rover model
Exploring
the solar system
9. Exploring the solar system
Don’t miss the display in the basement level. It looks at some of the amazing images
and information about our cosmic neighbourhood that robotic space probes have
revealed to us.

24. Online resources
1. Space exhibition, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/space.asp
2. Space exhibition teachers notes,
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/pdf/education/teachersnotes/space.pdf
3. Solar system guide, Sydney Observatory,
http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/astronomy/solar_system_guide.asp
4. NASA Education, http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
5. International Space Flight, http://www.worldspaceflight.com/
6. Human Space Flight, http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html
7. A multimedia tour of the Solar System, http://nineplanets.org/
8. Explore Space and Astronomy, ABC Science,
http://abc.net.au/science/topics/?topic=space
9. Science & Nature: Space, BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/
Relevant programs
1. Space gallery tour for yrs 1-6
2. Technology & Innovation: Design and Make workshop for yrs 5 & 6
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Image credit: All images used are from the Powerhouse Museum collection