Neighborhood Earth landed in Beijing. An interactive, immersive experience of traveling through the solar system

The featured exhibition Neighborhood Earth has come to Shanghai! It is the third station in China of the exhibition during its worldwide tour after the premiere in US Space & Rocket Center in February this year. Dedicated to exploration on the galactic scale of our solar system, Neighborhood Earth is developed in partnership with US Space & Rocket Center and the Official Visitor’s Center for NASA’s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, designed and produced by Chronica Creative.

 

The exhibition gives the visitor the opportunity to zoom through the solar system with a 360-degree cinematic experience along with the spacecraft and robotics that explore our celestial neighbourhood, and further our knowledge of the worlds around us.

 

 

 

Standing on the surface of other planets. Watching the sunset while you are standing in Gale Crater on Mars. Surrounded by a lightning storm on Venus. The epic climax and culmination of Neighborhood Earth is the immersive theatric experience that places you right alongside Cassini, New Horizons, and the other plucky spacecraft on a journey to visit the other planets in our solar system.

 

 

 

 

There are screens literally above, below, and all around you. In the very middle sits a half globe 8.5 feet tall with images of the different planets projected on it.

These astonishing images come from NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, constructing a 30-minute film that gives the visitor a 360-degree look at the solar system. Besides, the accompanying sound effect and narrative voice-over provide an opportunity for a comprehensive understanding of our neighbor planets.

 

 

 

 

Before entering the cinematic experience, you will go through the real sized ISS Model with exactly every detail retained and explore the living environment of the spaceman through the all-touchable devices.

 

The kiosks are hands-on, educational stations that include touch panels that correspond with the hologram on the screen at the top of each kiosk, breaking down details of each planet and the robotic animal that toured that planet. The Pluto will appear here though it has been demoted to a dwarf planet. It is a fun feature for the kids.

 

 

Zoom forward to the display of the NASA Z-2 space suit, a prototype currently in development and the A7LB spacesuit for Project Apollo.