Investigate Space: Our Universe
Event Date:
Friday, April 8, 2011
Event Time:
7:00pm
Event Description:
Opened a new interactive gallery called 'Investigate Space: Our Universe.' Covers width and breadth of unmanned space exploration with imagery, video, and artifacts from NASA.
Event Type:
Exhibit
Open to the General Public?:
Yes
Topic:
Asteroids & Comets, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Dwarf Planets, Earth, Earth's Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune, Mars, Mercury & Venus, Sun, Universe
Mission:
Cassini-Huygens, Chandra, Hubble, Kepler, LRO - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity), MESSENGER, Spitzer, Voyager
Event Location:
Cosmosphere International Science Education Center & Space Museum
1100 N Plum Street
Hutchinson, Kansas 67501United States
Additional Comments:
Worked closely with NASA - JPL to obtain information and artifacts for exhibit. Full scale Surveyor, Sojourner, and Viking from JPL. Images from many various NASA probes. Brought full-scale 'Curiosity' rover from JPL on first stop of its nationwide tour.