1964-1965 New York World's Fair

Without pause, man has rushed headlong into the nuclear age, the space age and the age of automation. A variety of exhibits at the fair help the fairgoer catch up with this runaway revolution in technology and science. America's first steps into orbit around the earth and plans for future ventures into space are set forth in a number of cinematic space trips as well as in a host 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 boost Apollo to the moon.

FOOTING ON THE MOON Essential to Apollo's journey of discovery, this vehicle (above) will ferry astronauts between their capsule and the moon. It is in the U.S. Space Park.

FIERY STEP FORWARD A Saturn I booster, with 1.5 million pounds of thrust, lifts a 20,000-pound payload in a blast-off typical of the space age. A scale model of Saturn I is displayed in Florida's Cape Kennedy exhibit.

SPACE-AGE STATION A spaceport and supply rocket (right), designed by the Martin Marietta Corporation, meet in mid-air in this scene from the Hall of Science space show. In such a port, astronauts may orbit for half a year.