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...
by Shari Brady | Feb 2, 2022 | News
By Shari Brady On Monday January 31, a fire broke out at Winston Weaver Fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, NC and the potential for an explosion is still possible as of Wednesday Feb 2. Ammonium nitrate is produced as small porous pellets called “prills” and is one of...
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...
