Tag: Museum of Flight
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Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit
London visitor Letu Yang helps his 4-year-old son, Rafael Yang, fly a custom-built jet through a “Full Throttle” simulation at the “Above and Beyond” exhibit at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above…
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30 years after the Challenger shuttle tragedy, the loss and legacies linger
The crew of the shuttle Challenger takes a break during countdown training on Jan. 9, 1986: From left are space teacher Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Michael Smith and Ellison Onizuka. (NASA photo) It’s been 30 years since the loss of the shuttle Challenger and its crew on Jan. 28, 1986, but…
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Symphonic SpaceFest: ‘Origins’ concert sets the Big Bang and astrobiology to music
An artist’s conception shows two “branes” colliding in multidimensional space, creating the Big Bang that gave rise to our own universe 13.8 billion years ago. (Animation by Deep Sky Studios) The Big Bang never looked, or sounded, so good: The piece de resistance for this week’s SpaceFest in Seattle is a symphonic review of 13.8…
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Reality check on ‘The Martian’ movie from a real astronaut: ‘Nerds rock’
Matt Damon stars as a stranded astronaut in “The Martian.” (Credit: Twentieth Century Fox) “The Martian” isn’t due to hit theaters until Oct. 2, but the highly anticipated man-vs.-Mars movie is already sparking some scientific nitpicking. So here’s some advice from NASA astronaut Michael Barratt: Don’t get hung up on what the filmmakers got wrong.…
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Seattle’s Museum of Flight to show off Apollo moon rocket parts recovered by Bezos Expeditions
The thrust chamber from an Apollo / Saturn V F-1 rocket engine sits on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, awaiting recovery. (Credit: Bezos Expeditions) Experts are wrapping up their conservation work on the decades-old Saturn V rocket engine parts that were recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to an effort backed…
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Listen to four NASA astronauts discuss the future of space flight
Former astronauts Rusty Schweickart, Franklin Chang Diaz, Ed Lu, and Gregory H. Johnson. Can we stop asteroids from slamming into Earth? Will people live in space? Are astronauts going back to the moon? An accomplished group of four former and current NASA astronauts discussed fascinating questions like these today at Spacefest, a three-day event organized by the Museum…
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Q&A: Space Shuttle Trainier set to make its Seattle debut
A sneak peek of the Space Shuttle Trainer. (Credit: Museum of Flight) On Saturday, the Space Shuttle Trainer will make its official debut at the Museum of Flight in Seattle — giving the public an up-close look at the full-sized Space Shuttle replica that served as the training ground for every astronaut in the Space Shuttle’s three…
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No borders: Space heroes join together for epic night
Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon, Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Saturday night. Photos by Long B. Nguyen, used with permission. www.longbachnguyen.com. They were all up on stage when the cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was introduced. With a lapel full of medals he strode across stage. As he walked past…
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Photos: A rare peek inside the Space Shuttle trainer
What the astronauts saw: Looking through the windows of the Full Fuselage Trainer at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t land a real Space Shuttle. But after getting a behind-the-scenes look at the Space Shuttle trainer being assembled at Seattle’s Museum of…
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Space elevators: 5 questions for conference chair Bryan Laubscher
(Credit: Science Photo Library) The Space Elevator Conference is in town this weekend. Intrigued by the concept, we talked to the general chair of the event, Bryan Laubscher, who also owns Odysseus Technologies located right here in Washington state. Laubscher answered five quick questions on why space elevator technology matters: What are the top three…