Tagged: Space Race

Seattle World's Fair
6:26 am
Mon July 23, 2012

Seattle World's Fair - Space Is The Place

Credit Photo by George Carkonen / The Seattle Times
John Gessner, one of the operators of the Bubbleator at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. 100 passengers at time rode the circular elevator to the World of Tomorrow in the Washington State Coliseum.

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair -– an event shaped by the Soviet Union’s launch of sputnik, President Eisenhower’s creation of NASA and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon.

In a collaboration with Jack Straw Productions and KUOW, reporter Harriet Baskas has the story of the remarkable event that brought us the Space Needle.

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