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Your next stop in NYC is in Queens. This massive 43-foot high bronze sculpture was designed by Donald De Lue (1897–1988) and it was installed in Flushing Meadows Corona Park for the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65. This sculpture is in keeping with one of the central themes of that fair - space exploration, the figure hurling a rocket heavenward with his right hand, and reaching for a constellation of gilded stars with his left.