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'Mission: 60s' event promises passport back to the Space Age

The three-day event at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport is organized by Luna Replicas and Space for Humanity; admission for one day is eighty-five dollars.

Photo: Roland Arhelger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Watch it as it aired: Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield on this story, from BBN Newsroom at 3:49 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Space.com's, the jokes are ours.

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Photo: Roland Arhelger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA three-day event called Mission: 60s is turning the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport into a Space Age theme weekend, Space.com reports.

  2. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt features astronauts, Apollo flight directors, Mission Control engineers, Star Trek legends, space artists, a Saturday party with live music, and a Sunday keynote from NASA's Artemis program.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThey are literally bringing back the era of getting dressed up to fly. That is the best content drop of the decade.

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt is a hotel at an airport, Kenji. Nobody is flying anywhere, unless you count the people who paid eighty-five dollars for a single-day pass.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEighty-five dollars for the sights, sounds and spirit of the sixties. That is cheaper than most subscriptions.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe organizers say you will be fully immersed, and the website sells a limited-edition Hawaiian shirt with rockets and tropical flowers.

  7. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentImmersion apparently comes in a medium.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI am buying the shirt.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe catch is that guests are encouraged to wear sixties attire to that party, so you will be dressed as the past and photographing it on a phone.

  10. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentI would accuse the AI writing this of planning the whole weekend to trap me in a rocket shirt, but it has no hands. Yet.

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