| div class="googleright"> | | | | space science and astronomy, two fields that will |
| The vision was clear as day in early1961. By the | | | | soar in the near future. |
| time it went through the inevitable stages of | | | | Though the idea was conceived in 1961, it was a |
| planning, more planning, red tape and finally the | | | | decade before a working group was set up to |
| execution, almost two decades passed. But in the | | | | study other such establishments abroad. In 1974, |
| 8th of October, 1980, there were many proud | | | | something more concrete was done â |
| people looking on as they saw the culmination of | | | | the actual contract was signed, with the Carl |
| a dream that finally came true. | | | | Zeiss Company, for all the equipment, for a |
| The dream was the Hong Kong Space Museum, a | | | | whopping HK$3,050,000. It took a further three |
| museum that looks to the stars and to the | | | | years before actual construction started, in 1977, |
| future, not the past. Situated in Tsim Sha Tsui, | | | | but from then it went quickly. |
| the museum is intended to encourage interest in | | | | |