Museum & Informal Education Alliance

Happy birthday, Adler Planetarium!  Learn more about the history of planetariums with this 8 minute video by the American Museum of Natural History.

Commander Ken Ham, Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Michael Good, Piers Sellers and Steve Bowen, Pilot Tony Antonelli.

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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, often called the "Mother of Hubble," is shown with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) in 1962. She was the first Chief of Astronomy in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters and the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA. In her role, she had oversight for the planning and development of programs including the Cosmic Background Explorer and the Hubble Space Telescope.  The Roman Space Telescope, named in her honor,will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. This observatory will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

The Final Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from our Sun and is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system – more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined. Jupiter's stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.

Mount St. Helens has provided unprecedented opportunities for U.S. researchers to collect scientific observations of the geology of an active volcano and document the regional ecological impact and recovery from an eruption.

Earth Observatory's World of Change: Devastation and Recovery at Mt. St. Helens story here,  topographic change here and 2002 image here

Commander James D. Halsell Jr., Pilot Scott J. "Doc" Horowitz, Mission Specialists Mary Ellen Weber, Jeffrey N. Williams, James S. Voss, Susan J. Helms and Yury Vladimirovich Usachev.

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