Tag: Museum of Flight
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Museum of Flight gets intact moon rocket engine to go with beat-up Apollo artifacts
An Apollo-era F-1 rocket engine arrives on a flatbed truck. (Museum of Flight Photo) When historic rocket engine parts from the Apollo moon missions go on display in May in Seattle, museumgoers will be able to compare them with an intact F-1 engine. The 50-year-old, 18.5-foot-tall engine arrived at one of the Museum of Flight’s…
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Sisterhood is powerful when it comes to Seattle’s commercial space scene
SpaceX’s Aarti Matthews, Blue Origin’s Erika Wagner and Vulcan Aerospace’s Cassie Lee field questions during an “Off-Planet Inc.” panel at the Museum of Flight’s SpaceFest. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) The billionaires who run Blue Origin and SpaceX – Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – may be locked in an outer-space rivalry, but the engineers who get…
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Get an exclusive video tour of the Museum of Flight’s Apollo moon rocket artifacts
It’s been almost a year since Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos unveiled pieces of the Saturn V rocket engines that propelled Apollo’s astronauts to the moon – and now you can watch a video guide to the goodies, courtesy of Seattle’s Museum of Flight (and GeekWire). Next spring, the decades-old artifacts will be among the highlights of…
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Museum of Flight lets you walk on Mars in virtual reality for SpaceFest
Aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle, explores NASA’s Curiosity rover and its surroundings on Mars in virtual reality at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. (GeekWire photo by Kevin Lisota) I’ve been to Mars to kick the tires on NASA’s Curiosity rover – and you can take that trip as well. Not in reality, of course, but in…
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Apollo 11 moon ship may go on tour for 50th anniversary – and stop by Seattle
The Apollo 11 command module, shown here at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is due to go on a road trip in 2019. (Credit: Smithsonian Institution / NASM) The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is laying the groundwork for a 50th-anniversary traveling exhibit featuring Apollo 11 space hardware, including the…
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Gradatim Ferociter! Jeff Bezos explains Blue Origin’s motto, logo … and the boots
Blue Origin’s coat of arms is packed with symbolism. (Credit: Blue Origin) You can’t buy stuff from billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture on Amazon just yet, but just wait: Sixteen years after its founding, Blue Origin offers enough symbols, mottos and mascots to keep the folks who make caps, shirts, coffee mugs – and yes, even cowboy…
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Video: Jeff Bezos shares big ideas, from Amazon’s drone landing pads to a 10,000-year clock
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos shows off a tortoise cufflink during the Pathfinder Awards banquet at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. The tortoise symbolizes the approach Bezos takes with his Blue Origin space venture. “We believe slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,” he says. (Credit: Tania Shepard / Azzura Photography) Someday, you’ll be printing out a…
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Museum of Flight teams up with Microsoft for virtual reality tours of historic airplanes
Visitors to Seattle’s Museum of Flight can use smartphones equipped with VR glasses to look into the interior of historic airplanes. (Credit: Microsoft via YouTube) It’s not easy to crawl through the guts of a World War II bomber, but a new virtual reality project from Microsoft and Seattle’s Museum of Flight turns it into…
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Space elevator fans keep looking up, even when they’re stuck on the ground floor
An artist’s conception shows a space elevator rising up from Earth’s surface. (Credit: Pat Rawlings / NASA file) Once upon a time, entrepreneurs were counting down to a date in 2018 when the first space elevator would open for business. NASA was setting aside millions of dollars to promote the technologies required for building that elevator.…
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What’s next in space is beautifully animated in ‘Space Next,’ showing at The Museum of Flight
(Afterglow Studios via Via Museum of Flight) The line between “can we really do that?” and pure science fiction seems to blur more every day, especially when it comes to space exploration. A cutting-edge, digitally animated film called “Space Next” will further excite those intrigued by futuristic possibilities. The 3D film is showing Saturday at…