Cité de l'espace

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The Cité de l' espace, in German as " Weltallstadt " is a theme park in the southern French city of Toulouse, the European capital of aeronautics and astronautics.

The Cité de l' espace is an important landmark of Toulouse and was opened in 1997. It is a mixture of theme park and amusement park. It is presented a lot of information about the solar system, satellites to the most recent space station and offered partly to try out.

Attractions

Even from afar you can see the exact replica of the Ariane 5, which like the real rocket is 55 meters high. The Ariane overlooks the landscaped 3.5 acre park with 2,000 m² of exhibition space.

In the main exhibition building, the development of space conquest is to discover and understand the progress of research. Interactive systems are plastically illustrates how satellites are built and exposed as the weather forecast functions, such as telecommunications makes life easier and the pioneers of all these areas have made their inventions. Models of Mir modules show in detail the daily life of astronauts.

An IMAX cinema with a shot by the astronauts on the ISS movie, a planetarium, and a hemisphere in which one thanks to a three-dimensional video projection travels to the past and track the evolution of the Earth from the Big Bang to the present day, are among the main attractions.

The Cité de l' espace was the city of Toulouse in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Culture, the French space agency CNES, EADS Astrium and many others realized by the.