Riverside, CA USA — March Field Air Museum will be hosting a special engagement of “We Choose Space” in an inflatable planetarium to celebrate the opening of its new Space Exhibit in March.
On loan from NASA, the dome will be displayed in the museum’s main hangar beginning March 2 and continue with hourly shows until March 31. The planetarium program was developed by the Houston Museum of Science. Planetarium shows will be $3 per person in addition to regular museum admission fees. Museum members are admitted free.
For the past several years the March Field Air Museum has acquired over $32 million of shuttle related artifacts in a competitive process with the General Services Administration. These artifacts are being exhibited in a newly designed area of the museum “Mission Control” which also opens on March 2. This exhibit contains actual consoles from the Kennedy Space Center that were used through the final shuttle launch as well as samples of shuttle tiles, space gloves and other mission memorabilia.
Jeff Houlihan, the museum curator, says that “in our continuing effort to provide an educational experience for all ages, we are pushing the boundaries of aviation in reaching for space.”
The new permanent exhibit hall features artifacts from over 50 years of space exploration and significant new additions to March Field Air Museum’s aviation collection. On display are over 70 artifacts from NASA and selections from the Glick Soviet Space collection, artifacts from the Apollo Moon flights donated by the family of the late Congressman Jerry L. Pettis, and a High Altitude Flight Suit donated by the family of aviation pioneer and legendary CIA U-2 pilot Al Rand.
March Field Air Museum will be hosting a special engagement of “We Choose Space” in an inflatable planetarium to celebrate the opening of its new Space Exhibit in March.
On loan from NASA, the dome will be displayed in the museum’s main hangar beginning March 2 and continue with hourly shows until March 31. The planetarium program was developed by the Houston Museum of Science. Planetarium shows will be $3 per person in addition to regular museum admission fees. Museum members are admitted free.
For the past several years the March Field Air Museum has acquired over $32 million of shuttle related artifacts in a competitive process with the General Services Administration. These artifacts are being exhibited in a newly designed area of the museum “Mission Control” which also opens on March 2. This exhibit contains actual consoles from the Kennedy Space Center that were used through the final shuttle launch as well as samples of shuttle tiles, space gloves and other mission memorabilia.
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March Field Air Museum will be hosting a special engagement of “We Choose Space” in an inflatable planetarium to celebrate the opening of its new Space Exhibit in March.
On loan from NASA, the dome will be displayed in the museum’s main hangar beginning March 2 and continue with hourly shows until March 31. The planetarium program was developed by the Houston Museum of Science. Planetarium shows will be $3 per person in addition to regular museum admission fees. Museum members are admitted free.
For the past several years the March Field Air Museum has acquired over $32 million of shuttle related artifacts in a competitive process with the General Services Administration. These artifacts are being exhibited in a newly designed area of the museum “Mission Control” which also opens on March 2. This exhibit contains actual consoles from the Kennedy Space Center that were used through the final shuttle launch as well as samples of shuttle tiles, space gloves and other mission memorabilia.
– See more at: http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20130227-riverside-museum-to-open-new-space-exhibit.ece#sthash.d4sY8n2o.dpuf