SUCCESS STORY Custom metal fabricator TC/American Manufacturing recently completed a high-prole project for NASA’s new space shuttle Atlantis display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The Waite Park, Minn., metal fabrication and machine shop built two massive kinetic theater door panels for the Atlantis display, which is scheduled to open in July 2013. Designed by the Minneapolis kinetic architectural rm Uni-Systems, the fast-acting theater doors will provide space center visitors with a dramatic audio/visual theater experience. As part of their tour, visitors will enter the theater and watch a short audio/visual presentation about the space shuttle. Then the theater’s opaque sound isolation panel will dramatically lift behind the translucent projection

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