TheOfficial Souvenir Bookof the1964 New York World ’s Fairincludes some gorgeous illustrations of futurist space geographic expedition . The Fair had phenomenal exhibits showcasing the American pushing into space , but if you ’re question what the Soviets put on display for 1964 — smack in the eye of the space raceway — you ’ll be disappoint to hear that they did n’t even have a pavilion .
Did the tensions of theCold Warkeep the Soviets from descend to a fair whose shibboleth was “ Peace Through Understanding ” ? Not quite . The 1964 New York World ’s Fair was n’t even an officially sanction World ’s Fair . Robert Moses , the head organizer , decided to charge site letting fees for countries that wanted to have a pavilion and this put the Fair at odds with theBureau of International Expositions(BIE ) . Many countries — include Canada , Australia , the Soviet Union and most of Europe — did n’t have representation at the Fair when the BIE encouraged its appendage not to participate .
With Americans trotting outjetpacks , videophonesandfuturistic highwaysit ’s kind of interesting to question what the Soviets might have done at the Fair in the name of Cold War competitor .
Below are pictures that appear in theOfficial Souvenir Bookto the 1964 New York World ’s Fair .
Without suspension , valet has rushed precipitately into the nuclear long time , the quad years and the age of mechanization . A sort of exhibit at the Fair assist the fairgoer apprehension up with this runaway revolution in technology and scientific discipline . High points of this revolution are picture on these and the next eight pages . America ’s first steps into orbit around the world and plans for next ventures into space are fructify forth in a bit of cinematic blank space trips as well as in a horde of real and scale - model exhibits of space - age hardware . The Cape Kennedy story at the Florida pavilion offers a photographic account of launchings , and the U.S. Space Park provides a showplace for Mercury , Gemini , Apollo and a unit of Saturn V , the rocket destined to promote Apollo to the lunation .
Essential to Apollo ’s journeying of breakthrough , this vehicle will ferry astronaut between their capsule and the moonshine . It is in the U.S. Space Park .
A Saturn I booster , with 1.5 million lb of drive , lifts a 20,000 - Cypriot pound payload in a blast - off typical of the space years . A scale model of Saturn I is display in Florida ’s Cape Kennedy showing .
A spaceport and supply rocket , project by the Martin Marietta Corporation , meet in mid - airwave in this scene from the Hall of Science space show . In such a port , cosmonaut may orbit for half a twelvemonth .
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