Day of discovery ‘Above and Beyond’ exhibit inspires young imaginations— and a few career choices By Dan Ral ey | Photos by Bob Ferguson 12 Boein g Frontie rs Photo: Paul Frank, right, and his son, Aidan, guests of Boeing on Family Day, share in the wonderment of the Above and Beyond exhibit in Washington, D.C. Oblivious to people standing all around him, Aydan Blakeley was on his knees, arms on a low-slung rail, eyes riveted straight ahead. The gradeschooler from Pennsylvania was inside the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., specifically in the middle of the new “Above and Beyond” touring exhibit. For the longest time, Blakeley, dressed in a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, was transfixed by an interactive station called the International Space Elevator, which by video means transported him through the different layers of Earth’s
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