by Shari Brady | Jan 27, 2022 | News
By Bruce Gavett Fifty five years ago on Thursday (January 27, 1967), NASA’s Apollo program got off to a very rocky start. The Apollo program was moving along and President Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade was in sight. Then tragedy...
by leighannwoodruff | Jan 25, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
The public is invited to join Kaleideum for a day of innovation at the museum during Kaleideum’s premiere Engineering Festival on Saturday, February 26, from 10 am-2 pm at Kaleideum North (400 W Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC). The festival will cap off a weeklong...
by Shari Brady | Jan 17, 2022 | News
An underwater volcano near Tonga erupted on Sunday with what is most likely the largest recorded eruption anywhere on the planet in more than 30 years! Dramatic images of the eruption in real time captured the huge plume of ash and steam as it spewed over 12 miles...
by Shari Brady | Jan 11, 2022 | News
By Bruce Gavett, Planetarium Volunteer There’s been a lot of press lately about asteroids, comets and meteors potentially hitting Earth. The good news is that NASA knows of zero asteroids large enough to do meaningful damage on Earth that are on a collision course in...