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[[Image:Unisphere.jpg|thumbnail|right|350px|View of the New York World's Fair from the observation towers of the New York State Pavilion; the [[Unisphere]] is at the left]]The '''1964/1965 New York World's Fair''' was the third major [[world's fair]] to be held in New York City.<ref>[http://archny.org/history/1960-1980.html Archdiocese History], Archdiocese of New York. Retrieved November 5, 2007.</ref> Hailing itself as a "Universal and Internat(contracted; show full);[[Great Society]]" proposals. The main show in the multi-million dollar pavilion was a 15-minute ride through a filmed presentation of American history. Visitors seated in moving grandstands rode past movie screens that slid in, out and over the path of the traveling audience. Elsewhere, there were tributes to [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]], who had broken ground for the pavilion in December 1962 but had been assassinated in November 1963 before the fair opened. 

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two-acre{{convert|2|acre|m2|adj=on}} United States Space Park was sponsored by [[NASA]], the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] and the fair.  Exhibits included a full-scale model of the aft skirt and five [[F-1 (rocket engine)|F-1]] engines of the [[S-IC|first stage]] of a [[Saturn V]], a [[Titan II GLV|Titan II]] booster with a [[Project Gemini|Gemini]] capsule, an Atlas with a Mercury capsule and a [[Thor-Delta]] rocket.  On display at ground level were ''[[Aurora 7]]'', the Mercury capsule fl(contracted; show full)[[Category:1964 in the United States|New York World's Fair]]
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[[es:Feria mundial Nueva York 1964]]
[[fr:Foire internationale de New York 1964-1965]]
[[ja:ニューヨーク万国博覧会 (1964年)]]