{"id":236983,"date":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/bringing-outer-space-down-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T07:00:00","slug":"bringing-outer-space-down-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/bringing-outer-space-down-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing outer space down to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA brings a multimedia exhibit to San Diego<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnny McDonald \u00a0|\u00a0Downtown News<\/p>\n

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NASA\u2019s mobile exhibit will support its \u201cDestination Station\u201d at RH Fleet. (Courtesy NASA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite the grounding of the shuttle and a government clearance delay on the Mars project, NASA continues to sell the virtues of space exploration with a traveling space show called \u201cDestination Station.\u201d<\/p>\n

The informative and hands-on exhibit makes its next landing at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, July 12 through Sept. 2.<\/p>\n

Visitors will hear what it\u2019s like to live and work in the International Space Station, an orbiting laboratory some 220 miles away with participating crewmembers Steve Swanson and Reid Wisema.<\/p>\n

\u201cNASA is bringing its Destination Station exhibit to San Diego to show what their human space program is still accomplishing long after the shuttle\u2019s retirement,\u201d said Col. Mike Hopkins, one of the astronauts that will travel to San Diego to support the exhibit. \u201cI\u2019ve lived and worked on the International Space Station, a fully operational scientific laboratory in space created by a partnership of 15 nations. We are doing science that will benefit us here on Earth in terms of health and technology, and we are learning how to enable your kids to explore beyond low earth orbit to destinations like Mars in the near future. Join us and learn about this exciting place in space!\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on hand at The Fleet to interact with visitors will be astronauts Chris Cassidy and Rex Walheim.<\/p>\n

The International Space Station operates as the result of a peaceful international partnership, and NASA is but one of five agencies representing 15 different countries that work together in support of the Space Station.<\/p>\n

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What the “Destination Station” display will look like at RH Fleet. (Photo by James Blair)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hopkins, Cassidy and Walheim will explain how space-based research brings results down to earth and plays a role in our lives.<\/p>\n

The exhibit also includes hands-on activities, imagery, audios and visual technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited to be able to bring NASA’s multimedia exhibit to San Diego and to provide our community with the opportunity to get up close and personal with life in outer space,\u201d said Dr. Steve Snyder, executive director of the Fleet Science Center. \u201cJuly marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and we hope that some of our youngest visitors will be inspired to become future astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n

To complement the multimedia exhibit, the Fleet will present the giant IMAX adventure \u201cHidden Universe,\u201d which takes audiences on a journey deep into space. Through IMAX cinematography, the deepest reaches of our universe are brought to life with unprecedented clarity through real images captured by the world\u2019s most powerful telescopes\u2014seen on-screen for the first time.<\/p>\n

NASA’s MAVEN mission to Mars has been halted by the government shutdown. But it still has a launch window of 20 days in late November\/early December when the Earth and Mars are in an advantageous alignment.<\/p>\n

If MAVEN cannot launch during this window, officials say the mission would be delayed until 2016, when the next appropriate alignment occurs. MAVEN has been granted an exception to the government shutdown rules and has been cleared to proceed with launch preparations.<\/p>\n

Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n visite rhfleet.org\/exhibitions\/destination-station<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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