The Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is an 85-foot (26 m) high stainless-steel cylinder at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California that is 27 feet (8.2 m) in diameter.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
It is used for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions of extreme cold, near-vacuum pressure, and high radiation. Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner, and Voyager spacecraft were all tested in this facility.
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“A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given moment in the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)