Ashraf AboArafe
Amidst an atmosphere full of children’s passion and adults’ amazement.. Visitors to the “Saudi Arabia Towards Space” exhibition live the experience of living in the vast space through a number of activities that put them at the heart of the journey to experience and learn about it.
The exhibition pavilions include the “Virtual Reality of Space” activity that places its users in the heart of space and nothing but space, through a virtual helmet that enables the individual to see space in a 360-degree range. The exhibition was also able to put its visitors in the experience of sleeping in the spacecraft, through a number of identical rooms. for vehicle bedrooms; Which made it a subject of interest for different age groups to experience their reality with great curiosity about what it is like to sleep in space.
The exhibition welcomes its visitors with a 3-minute documentary that tells the story of our pioneers. Ali Al-Qarni and Rayana Barnawi, in addition to presenting the details of the flight and the vehicle in an enriching, enjoyable and detailed manner for its visitors.
Through exhibitions of the scientific mission, the Saudi Space Authority seeks to enhance national interest in the space sector, inspire the next generation of young people and juniors in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and raise the level of investing their energies, while providing them with the necessary support for all the details of the Kingdom’s historical mission in the International Space Station.
It is noteworthy that the Riyadh exhibition is located on King Fahd Road opposite the King Abdullah Financial Center, and in the city of Jeddah in Al-Nawras Square at the waterfront, while it is held in the city of Dhahran at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture “Ithra”, and its doors are opened from 9 am to 12 pm, and then it is re-opened. It is open from 4 to 10 pm.
