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Lady Gaga Unveils 'Flying Dress' At Brooklyn Event

Lady Gaga Celebrates Release Of New Album "ARTPOP"
Lady Gaga attends artRave on November 10, 2013 in Brooklyn. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Benjamin Rollins Caldwell)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Lady Gaga has taken yet another leap up the superstardom scale with what she bills as the world's first flying dress.

On Sunday, the "Applause'' singer unveiled a high-tech, white vehicle that lifted her up inside a mammoth building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a defunct shipyard developed for commercial use.

The contraption has six booms in a hex formation and is powered by batteries.

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The 27-year-old New York entertainer said later that this was "maybe a small step for Volantis'' -- as she calls the metal dress -- but "a big-time step'' for Lady Gaga.

Her ultimate goal, she says, is to stage the first musical performance from space.

Meanwhile, a temporary art exhibit titled "Artpop Pop Up: Lady Gaga Gallery'' opened Monday to celebrate the release of her third album "ARTPOP."

The three-day exhibit on 417 West 14th Street will be open from 12 p.m. – 9 p.m. through Wednesday.

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