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Ripley's debuts space station made out of 280,000 matchsticks, believe it or not [i]When astronauts describe what they used to assemble the International Space Station, they refer to docking ports, large metal bolts and miles of cabling. All that artist Patrick Acton needed were 8 gallons of glue and about 280,000 matchsticks, believe it or not. Acton's 11-foot-long by 15-foot-wide by 4.6 foot tall (3 by 4.5 by 2 meter) space station model may only be one-twenty-sixth (1/26) the size of the orbiting outpost, but is still a sight to behold. Now suspended overhead at Space Center Houston, the visitor complex for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, the matchstick station is part of the new exhibition "Amazing Universe: The Science of Ripley's Believe It or Not!" which opens on Saturday (Feb. 21).[/i]
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