The Last Surviving Spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Adam visits the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and meets one of the star pieces of its collection: the Aries 1B filming model from 2001: A Space Odyssey! In the museum's Debbie Reynolds Conservation Studio, conservators tour Adam around the model and detail the five-year project to painstakingly restore the model to as close to its original filming condition as possible.

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Adam visits the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and meets one of the star pieces of its collection: the Aries 1B filming model from 2001: A Space Odyssey! In the museum's Debbie Reynolds Conservation Studio, conservators tour Adam around the model and detail the five-year project to painstakingly restore the model to as close to its original filming condition as possible.

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