Editing Century 21 Exposition (section)

=== World of Science ===
[[File:Science pavilion at Century 21 Exposition, 1962.jpg|thumb|The Federal Science Pavilion, "a virtual cathedral of science".<ref name=Yamasaki />]]
The World of Science centered on the United States Science Exhibit. It also included a [[NASA]] Exhibit that included models and mockups of various [[satellite]]s, as well as the [[Project Mercury]] capsule that had carried [[Alan Shepard]] into space.<ref name=science>''Official Guide Book'', pp. 8–24.</ref> These exhibits were the federal government's major contribution to the fair.<ref name=Berger /><ref name=Thiry-oral />

The United States Science Exhibit began with [[Charles Eames]]'  10-minute short film ''The House of Science'', followed by an exhibit on the development of science, ranging from mathematics and astronomy to atomic science and genetics. The Spacearium held up to 750&nbsp;people at a time for a simulated voyage first through the [[Solar System]] and then through the [[Milky Way Galaxy]] and beyond. Further exhibits presented the [[scientific method]] and the "horizons of science". This last looked at "Science and the individual", "Control of man's physical surroundings", "Science and the problem of [[world population]]", and "Man's concept of his place in an increasingly technological world".<ref name=science />