Tape Gemini and Tape Wormhole: Photos of Museum Exhibit

Packing Tape Replica of the Gemini Capsule

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Museum visitors enter a packing tape replica of the Gemini capsule. Tape Gemini, along with another project Tape Wormhole, made their debuts at the Liberty Science Center on June 25.

Tape Wormhole Construction

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Volunteers assisted the artist Eric Lennartson in constructing Tape Wormhole (pictured) and Tape Gemini in just three days. The bones of the structures were flexible plastic wrap.

Tape Wormhole Construction #2

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Volunteers stretched 18 miles of tape across the tape structures to create a firm, translucent surface — 1/3 longer than the island of Manhattan.

Finishing Touches on Tape Gemini

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The builders put finishing touches on Tape Gemini and Tape Wormhole, which are intended to highlight the museum's new space exhibits.

Lennartson Inside Tape Gemini

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The designer Eric Lennartson poses inside Tape Gemini.

Tape Wormhole Exploration

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Although mostly children made the journey through the two sides of Tape Wormhole, adults occasionally made their way inside as well

Kids in Tape Wormhole

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Liberty Science Center's President and CEO, Paul Hoffman, counted 15 kids in the wormhole at one point.

Lennartson Inside Tape Wormhole

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Eric Lennartson poses inside one half of the completed Tape Wormhole before it was opened to the public.

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