Also on the roof is a spaceship the size of a dinner plate containing aliens who observe people and the city as brightly colored abstractions.
The orbiter hangs just feet from your touch, and visitors will be in awe of the spaceship's size while spending hours interacting with exhibits dedicated to the shuttle program.
Early on Tuesday night, he was asked about Major League Soccer's attempt to place a Spaceship-Enterprise-size soccer stadium in the midst of Flushing Meadows, Queens's densest and most heavily used park.
The spaceship, about the size of a London double-decker bus, was packed with food for the crew, science equipment and spare parts for the orbiting laboratory.
Keller told VICE that Taylor spent the better part of a year welding together a life-size spaceship replica from spare parts he collected from the local dump.
A life-size spaceship prop from TV's original "Star Trek" series, once lost and in shambles, has been lovingly restored to its former glory by die-hard fans for a new mission: to live long and prosper as a museum piece.
Closer to our own time, there's a Sputnik-size paper spaceship, dated 1969, by the Belgian artist Panamarenko.
Like some latter-day Isaac Asimov, he persists in knocking out his space operas, complete with galactic civilisations, mighty spaceships and brains the size of planets.
Just before his disappearance, Taylor's obsession grew to a point where he decided to build a life-size replica spaceship on his parent's farm that he sometimes slept in.
Sitting at a blonde wood circle the size of a spaceship, the fast growing German discounter's two managing directors explain how they are eating the major supermarkets' lunch.
The setting is the near future, and as in those movies about meteorites threatening the very existence of our earth (they go back well over 50 years to When Worlds Collide), the crew of the Icarus II - a spaceship said to be the size of Manhattan - has a mission.
