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FROM the day it opened, the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium was in show business. In that fall of 1935, both tourists and New Yorkers waited in lines that stretched from the box office to the subway station nearly a block away...
Oversold Public. A large public, happily mixing fact & fiction, apparently believes that space travel is just around the corner. Two years ago New York's Hayden Planetarium whimsically offered "reservations" to the moon and planets. It got 25,000 requests, many of them deadly serious, from all over the world. Every military guided missile center has to chase "space volunteers" away from its guarded perimeter...
Space cadets will surely enjoy the show at the Hayden Planetarium, 81st and Central Park West. "The Conquest of Space" has five showings on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays; three otherwise...
...Manhattan, some 300 scientists, doctors, astronomers, engineers, aviators and lawyers were too busy to hear it. They were gathered at the Hayden Planetarium for the first annual Symposium on Space Travel, and they were loading up modern Conestoga wagons for the interstellar frontiers...
...possible explanation of the letter concerns an exhibit put on last fall by the Hayden Planetarium. As a publicity stunt to attract children to the show the Planetarium offered reservations on the first rocket flight to the moon...