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NASA Exploration Experience Exhibit Tours Washington State July 8-25
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- America’s plans for opening the space frontier – including new human exploration of Earth's moon and future voyages into the solar system beyond – are featured in an interactive exhibit scheduled to tour Washington State July 8-25, 2009.
"We hope the multimedia experience helps people better understand how the country plans to explore the moon and journey beyond in the next decade or so," said Kirk Pierce, outreach coordinator at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
The first stop in the Washington State tour kicks off July 8-12 in Arlington, where the exhibit will be on display at the Arlington Fly-In grounds from July 8-9 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. PDT; July 10-11 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. PDT; and July 12 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT. Astronaut Anna Fisher, a mission specialist on the second flight of the space shuttle orbiter Discovery, will make two guest appearances for autograph signing on Friday, July 10 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. PDT. The tour continues to the Hands On Children’s Museum in Olympia, Wash. from July 14-16, before moving on to the last stop at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Wash., July 23-25. Jeevan Perera, risk manager for the Orion space vehicle, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, will be speaking July 24-25 at 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. PDT from the Museum of Flight.
"Interactive control panels and activity station, immersive 3D imagery and audio effects will plunge visitors into a not-too-distant future on the moon," Pierce added. "They'll discover what it will be like to live and work on the surfaces of other worlds – and how it will benefit life back home on Earth."
NASA staffers will be available at each tour stop to answer questions and discuss some of the thousands of technologies used on Earth resulting from years of space-based research and development by the agency and its partners. "Exhibit visitors can learn how our quality of life improves when America’s space exploration activities refine existing technologies and develop new breakthroughs in areas such as power generation, computer technology, communications, networking and robotics," said Pierce. Visitors also can learn how other advanced technologies are increasing the safety and reliability of space transportation systems, while also reducing costs.
Touring the NASA Exploration Experience exhibit takes approximately 10 minutes. The exhibit is free and wheelchair-accessible. Exhibit visitors also can see what they would look like on the moon by having their photo taken in a space suit against a lunar landscape. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the traveling exhibit for the agency’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate in Washington.
NASA’s Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP), a NASA resource that delivers education programs to all 50 states and U.S. territories, supports the Exploration Experience Exhibit. Robots on the Road will be present at all tour stops. Professional development workshops are scheduled in Arlington, August 3-6 at the Snohomish County Airport; Olympia, August 24-25 in the North Kipsap School District for Starbase Atlantis educators; and in Seattle, August 8 for Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Education Leaders.
For more information about the traveling exhibit, visit:
http://exploration.nasa.gov
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