{"id":103122,"date":"2024-10-21T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T19:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&p=103122"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:29:14","slug":"journey-to-space-exhibition-touches-down-at-n-c-museum-of-natural-sciences-nov-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/journey-to-space-exhibition-touches-down-at-n-c-museum-of-natural-sciences-nov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Journey to Space\u2019 Exhibition Touches Down at N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Nov. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[RALEIGH, N.C.] \u2014 Do you have what it takes \u2026 to live and work in space? Find out at \u201cJourney to Space,\u201d a new exhibition opening at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Saturday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n

This special exhibition, developed in partnership with NASA’s Johnson Space Center, invites visitors to explore the extraordinary environment of space, including the dangers that astronauts face during their missions above Earth and the adaptations that engineers have developed to help them survive while in space.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll learn about the vacuum of space, radiation, meteoroids and temperature extremes, getting a look at all the ways in which the forbidding environment of space can challenge the humans who explore it. You will experience the sights, sounds and smells on board the International Space Station (ISS), and try your hands at some of the feats of engineering that support astronauts who live in space. Finally, check out authentic artifacts from past missions, including Neil Armstrong\u2019s helmet and gloves from Apollo 11, when he became the first person to walk on the moon.<\/p>\n

Through games, multimedia components and interactive stations, you\u2019ll learn how astronauts eat, sleep and even go to the bathroom in space. Finally, climb aboard a full-scale mock-up of the Destiny Lab, the primary research facility for U.S. payloads on the ISS, and feel the sensation of floating as you get a virtual tour of the lab from astronauts who have worked there.<\/p>\n

Profiles on Museum astronomers Rachel Smith and Patrick Treuthardt will detail the adventure of astronomy on Earth, including how researchers observe space using powerful telescopes in Hawai\u2018i, and how spiral galaxies are formed.<\/p>\n

\u201cJourney to Space\u201d is presented by the Science Museum of Minnesota and the California Science Center with support from NASA. It will run through April 27, 2025.<\/p>\n

For more information or to buy tickets, visit naturalsciences.org\/space. Tickets are also available at the Museum Box Office: Free for Members; $16 for Adults; $12 for Children 3-12. Exhibition Hours are Tuesday\u2013Sunday,10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last entry at 4 p.m.).<\/p>\n

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