Cosmo Theater

英Admission
Exhibition Floor Cosmo Theater

語EnglishExhibition FloorandCosmo Theater

Adult

￥５00

￥５00

￥900Child

￥250

￥300

￥450

(Child prices apply to elementary and junior high school aged children.)

The Cosmo Theater offers HAKONIWA digital projection
on a 12-meters dome. Developed by Libra, this projection
system allows visitors to experience our universe and ourworld in vivid colors, dramatic motion, and brilliant
displays of light.

Space and UFOs MuseumOpen
8:30 -17:00 (last entry 16:30)

COSMO ISLE HAKUIClosedTuesday ; the day following national holidaysMuseum Shop

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The Museum Shop is the best place to ﬁnd a souvenirof your visit to COSMO ISLE HAKUI.
The Shop offers hundreds of gift ideas,including space
food, spaceship models, Alien doll, t-shirts, hats, posters,gliders, educational toys, and much, much more.

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Touch the touch screen television in the booth to start
the program. Next, choose Japanese or English. The
names and faces of several scientists will appear. Toucha name, and you will be greeted with "Welcome to Cosmo
Isle Hakui." Then touch the topic you want to ﬁnd outabout.

Space and UFOs Museum

COSMO ISLE HAKUI
25 Menden Tsurutamachi Hakui City Ishikawa Zip. 925-0027
Phone 81-0767-22-9888 Fax 81-0767-22-1947

Exhibition Floor Information
This exhibition contains both high quality reproductions
and actual items of machinery and materials used inman's ﬁrst space exploration and planetary investigations.
In the booths, you can discover how valuable the Earth's
atmosphere is to living things, and listen to analyses andcommentary on the phenomenon of UFOs, which havebeen sighted both from Earth and in space. Scientists
explain the meaning and ﬁndings of SETI(the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
SETI Summit Booth
ApolloCM

Lunar/Mars
RoverMolnya

ApolloLM

Luna 24
VikingMars LanderEXITE

The boom antenna and material covering
the measuring instruments of this Voyager
Spacecraft are made of the same parts as
the original craft. The boom is actually
over 10 metres long, but on this model it
has been cut off at the ﬁrst stage ofextension from its canister. The position ofthe Earth and the sun when Voyager tookoff are engraved on the round gold
coloured disk attached to the craft. On thereverse of the disk the message "Hello,
how are you?" is recorded in Japanese.
There is a message to as yet unknown

This space ship is a one man capsuledeveloped by the USA, and was the USA'sﬁrst manned space ship. The Mercury
Redstone and Titan launch rockets used forthis capsule were both improved versionsof the intermediate range ballistic missile.
The heat resistant shield of the outer wallof the capsule on display here is modeled
directly on the actual one used. Inaddition, the onboard operating panel,

Vostok Reentry Capsule (USSR)This Vostok Capsule is a one-man manned
reentry capsule which actually traveled toand returned from space. Its surface isburnt from the friction caused by its
reentry into the atmosphere having
separated from the spacecraft. At a heightof around 7000m, the pilot ejects from thecapsule and pilot and capsule return toEarth separately, by parachute.

Apollo Lunar Module (USA)This Apollo Lunar Module is modeled on
the 17 module: the latest to have taken
human beings to the moon. The actual
ﬂight garment worn by the captain of themodule, Eugene Cernan, is on display onthe wall. The Apollo project becamefamous through the ﬁlm Apollo 13, but
the project was in fact a tremendous
achievement in the history of mankind,combining the most advanced scienceand wisdom of the time.
The gold, silver, and copper coloured
sheets on the outside of the Apollo Lunar
Module on display are made of the samematerial as those of the actual module.
The signatures of President Nixon and ofApollo 11 crew members Neil Armstrong,

Lunar / Mars Rover (USA)Voyager

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Voyager Spacecraft (USA)UFO Summit BoothVostok

Mercury

Mercury Space Capsule (USA)This Rover is an experimental prototype
built on behalf of NASA (NationalAeronautics and Space Administration) for
travel on the surface of Mars and themoon. It was experimented on repeatedly
until a practicable version was reached.
With NASA's cooperation, the Rover is on
permanent loan to Hakui City from theJohnson Space Center.

Luna 24 (USSR)
The Lunar Project was the ﬁnal lunar
exploration carried out by the USSR, inAugust 1976. The module used in theproject was Luna 24. The module on
display here was the back-up of theoriginal module, standing by ready for
immediate use in the case of a breakdown.
The plan was for the unmanned module toland on the moon and, remotely controlledfrom Earth, to drill a hole in the surface ofthe moon with the drill mounted on theright hand side and gather lunar samples.
It would then seal the samples in thespherical capsule at the head of theMercury Redstone Rocket

Mercury Redstone Rocket (USA)This rocket was developed when Wernher Von Braun,
disciple of Hermann Oberth, known as "the father ofmodern rocket engineering," crossed from Germany tothe USA in 1952. Since the Atlas Rocket was not readyin time for the USA's ﬁrst manned space ﬂight, ProjectMercury, this Redstone was used as the launch vehicle.
The ﬁrst and second sections of this rocket are fromthe original rocket.

Lunar Rover Vehicle (USA)The Lunar Rover displayed here is a
reproduction of the Lunar Rover on board
the Apollo 15, with the metal mesh tires
having been exchanged for rubber tires sothat it can travel on land. Metal tires are
not practical for use on land; the weight ofjust two people would cause the tires tocollapse. The Lunar Rover runs on
batteries, and its fastest speed on land is30kph. The rover is controlled by the leverMolniya 1 Communication Satellite (USSR)
The former Soviet Union needed a stable
position far above the Earth's surface inorder to cover the whole of the vastlandmass of Russia. The Molniya
Communications Satellite secured a stable
position far from Earth. Molniya means"lightning" and a special feature is that it
has a giant gyroscope inside measuring its
stability. The Communications Satellite on
display here is the Molniya 1's backup

Apollo Command Module (USA)The Apollo Command Module, which carries
three people, is a cone measuring 3.1m indiameter at the base, 3.23m tall, andweighing 5.9tons. With a capacity of only
10 cubic metres, it is extremely small.
Under normal conditions, it would bedifﬁcult to do anything in such a small
space, but under zero gravity conditions, itbecomes possible.

Viking Lander (USA)Most of the parts of the Viking Spacecraft
displayed here were used forexperimentation, and their serial numbers,
stickers etc are those of the original
maker. We have reproduced the original asfaithfully as possible to create this model.