by Shari Brady | Apr 2, 2023 | News
Spring is here, and it’s the perfect time to get outside and try this fun maker activity. Coffee filter parachutes help children explore how parachutes work and learn about larger concepts such as air resistance and weather conditions. Gather the following...
by Shari Brady | Sep 2, 2022 | News
By Bruce Gavett On December 14, 1972, astronaut Eugene Cernan climbed the ladder back up to the Apollo 17 lunar module. With that, the last human left the surface of the Moon. No one has returned since then. It has been almost 50 years. Now, NASA is planning to go...
by Shari Brady | Mar 10, 2022 | News
By Bruce Gavett, Planetarium Volunteer March is Women’s History Month, and this week we’re going to spotlight two prominent women astronomers of the 20th Century. Many important discoveries in science were made by women, but for a variety of reasons they were...
by Shari Brady | Feb 16, 2022 | News
By Bruce Gavett, Planetarium Volunteer Today, human space flight has become almost routine. The International Space Station (ISS) is manned continuously with astronauts and cosmonauts traveling to and from in both Soyuz and SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Elon Musk, Jeff...
by Shari Brady | Feb 8, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
Kaleideum at Home: Marble Painting Young children, much like cats, love to move objects around and observe what happens. Rolling a toy down the steps, watching a ball bounce, or testing if an object will sink or float — this is all science, and the more children can...
