International orange International orange International orange is a color used in the aerospace industry to set objects apart from their surroundings, similar to safety orange, but deeper and with a more reddish tone. This is the shade used by NASA. The Bell X1, the first airplane to break the sound barrier, was also painted in International Orange. Above is displayed the tone of "international orange" used to paint the Golden Gate Bridge. The tone of international orange used to paint the Golden Gate Bridge is slightly lighter than the standard International orange used by military contractors and in engineering (shown below), thus
Golden Gate International Exposition exposition. The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and the Western Pacific Railroad launched the "Exposition Flyer" passenger service between Chicago and Oakland, named for the Golden Gate International Exposition. In October 2010, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. opened an exhibition titled "Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s". This exhibition, which was available for view until September 2011, prominently featured the Golden Gate International Exposition. Many of the art pieces that were created from the Art in Action exhibition, including the Pan American Unity mural by Diego Rivera, three Dudley C.