A space center is a place dedicated to space-related activity. It may be in public or private ownership.
These activities may concern:
- Research
- Manufacturing of major parts of space vehicles
- Launch of space vehicles
- In orbit control of space vehicles
- Government programs of a space agency
- Public education at a specialist science museum
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“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
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