Local Field Trip - August - Planetarium - Engineering the Space Station

Engineering the Space Station

8 pm -This interactive show describes how 15 nations worked together to create the International Space Station (ISS), a unique scientific laboratory and home in space. A rap and animations explain how weight, mass, gravity and speed are related, and why astronauts are weightless on the ISS even though there IS gravity in space. Benefits to humanity of the ISS are also discussed.

Ages 8 and Up

Weather permitting, the RPSEC Observatory, housing the Bechtel Telescope, will be open for viewing after each show.