Embedded in the exhibition architecture are participatory areas, so called Social Scenography Spaces, in which visitors can actively enter into dialogue with works, with each other or with the experts on site. Speed, freedom, peace, immortality and sustainability: these five main chapters structure the exhibition visit and enable a critical examination of past and present visions of a more livable future. Utopias of the third dimension examines for the first time the intertwining of technological and societal utopias and raises the question: Can technology save the world – or is it rather an instrument of power and a marketing promise? For this, the exhibition starts in the past with the history of airships and looks into possible futures with works by contemporary artists. Shaped by a strong belief in technology, marketing and the desire for progress, utopias develop, but so do their counterparts, dystopias. Behind airships, drone taxis, civil Hypersonic Aircraft, flying cities or space tourism, we often find simple human longings. But especially in our cosmos of fragile ecosystems, overpopulation, lack of space, scarcity of resources and war, innovative technologies seem to promise a better future, a more livable world. Wishes to navigate the skies or travel through space are not new. The exhibition focuses on the question whether technical innovations can fulfil the human desires for speed, freedom, peace, immortality and sustainability, or whether their significance is exaggerated by marketing and fetishized promises of salvation. Airships and air taxis, civil Hypersonic Aircraft, flying cities and space settlements: Historical and current technical and socio-political utopias are juxtaposed with artistic positions that question them, envision alternative scenarios and reveal their dystopian potential. Utopias of the third dimension at the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen discusses visions and ideas from the last 120 years for overcoming gravity in a variety of ways and for optimizing the necessary technologies. NASA also wants to take in feedback from companies interested in the side-mounted booster contract.The transdisciplinary exhibition Fetishizing the Future. At that event, the agency will release additional SLS acquisition details and gather feedback from aerospace companies whose Ares contracts must be modified. NASA plans to hold an SLS industry day Sept. Ares 5 would have used RS-68 engines, the core engine for United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 expendable rocket. In contrast with the Ares 5, SLS’s core stage will use a cluster of Rocketdyne-built RS-25D space shuttle main engines. Rocketdyne will contribute the J-2X engine for the rocket’s upper stage, as it would have for the Ares 5 ATK will contribute five-segment solid- rocket motors and Boeing will provide the avionics packages for the core and upper stages of SLS. In the synopsis, NASA affirmed plans to use existing Ares contracts for this work. The first crewed SLS flight is planned for 2021 and will feature the 70-metric-ton configuration. Later SLS configurations will add an upper-stage engine and additional core engines to increase the rocket’s payload capability to 130 metric tons. That configuration will be able to lift 70 metric tons to low Earth orbit. SLS development is to proceed in phases, the first of which is to produce by 2017 the vehicle’s core stage and side-mounted solid boosters. SLS is similar to the enormous Ares 5 cargo lifter planned under Constellation. NASA plans to issue this year a solicitation for proposals for risk reduction work on the side-mounted booster program.Īs expected since NASA unveiled its chosen SLS design back in July, Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., Boeing Space Exploration of Houston and ATK of Magna, Utah, are in line to retain work awarded to them under the canceled Constellation program, which was intended to replace the space shuttle and return U.S.
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