Land and Buildings

Space Centre Phase 2

"Human Spaceflight: Lunar Base 2025 has landed!"

On Saturday 16th July 2005 the National Space Centre opened its doors with a brand new attraction to offer to its visitors. Human Spaceflight: Lunar Base 2025 is now open and ready to be explored.

The new gallery has been designed to challenge and involve the visitor on every level. There are interactive exhibits to test visitors' mental and physical ability to survive the long and dangerous voyage into deep space.

The new education suite is not far behind in its completion. The building at the bottom of the iconic rocket tower will better accommodate the thousands of school children that visit each year.

Organisation: NSSC Operations Ltd.

Completion Date: June 2005

Location

National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester

Project Description

It is wonderful to have a project like the National Space Centre in Leicester and it can only be of benefit to the City. Representative of SPS Technologies.

A new gallery dedicated to human spaceflight will be introduced in the summer of 2005. This will be a highly interactive, futuristic 'feel it, do it' experience to complement the existing exhibition. Simulators and physical interactives will be used to allow visitors to test their skills as astronauts, blast off, land, live and work in space and walk on other planets. The future of human spaceflight ? today!

'Human Spaceflight' will displace the existing corporate hospitality facilities into a new single storey extension to the base of the iconic Rocket Tower. The main facility will take the name of 'John Eggleston Suite' from the existing facility to ensure we continue to remember the extraordinary leadership of the Chairman of the company that developed the National Space Centre and who died the year before its launch.

Outcomes

The average visit to the National Space Centre will increase from three hours to four hours. People will travel from across the UK to take part in a unique experience, and will re-visit from time to time to tackle the interactive challenges and simulations for which the outcomes will never be quite the same.

As the National Space Centre develops to become a full day attraction, so the prospect of the city being considered a short breaks destination increases. The forthcoming Science & Technology Park will have an iconic focus for themed development of a unique place in the UK to work and to promote scientific excellence.

Much of the exhibition content will be designed, developed and built in Leicester using local brains and local craftsmen. A number of new jobs will be created to deliver this extraordinary new experience.

Project Contacts

Project manager:
Chas Bishop
Tel: 0116 258 2102
E-mail: chasb@spacecentre.co.uk
Website: www.nssc.co.uk

LSEP contact:
Andy Rose
Tel: 0116 257 5677
Email: andyr@lsep.co.uk
Website: www.lsep.co.uk