Space Exploration
The space exploration area covers the major breakthrough in space research and its development with high resolution photographs and visitor interactive computer control exhibits.
Hall of Space and Hall of Science pavilion in Science City was inaugurated and opened for visitors by then Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi and then Leader of Opposition Shri L. K. Advani on 4th May 2008.
The space exploration area covers the major breakthrough in space research and its development with high resolution photographs and visitor interactive computer control exhibits.
India in Space Showcases the brilliant achievement of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) with prototype models of all major Indian satellites and launch vehicles. This area also highlights the important contributions of APJ Abdul Kalam and Vikram Sarabhai in Space Research and development along with other milestones of ISRO.
India has made a history with the launching of the Chandrayaan-I as the first Lunar Mission of the country. Chandrayaan-I has been successfully launched on 22nd October 2008. An exhibit simulating the launching of Chandrayaan, moving to outer orbits with gravity assist, orbiting round the Moon will kindle our imagination.
A motion simulator, in Hall of Space, takes the visitors to a journey through the solar system exploring each planet and an thrilling encounter with a black hole and landing on Mars. After the thrill of landing on mars an event simulator takes the visitors inside a Mars capsule wherein they perform experiments which one day the scientists will perform on the Martian soil in search of some form of life.
Are we alone a in this vast Universe? A seven-screen panoramic projection answers this big question. The projection analyses the prerequisites of life and explain how recent space probes have drawn a blank on other planets and satellites in the solar system. It goes on analyzing the possibilities of finding life in outer space in the Milky Way or in other galaxies.