Learning Your Way Around the Space Shuttle Crew Cabin Middeck
Presented Online
Presenter: Valerie Neal
During the Space Shuttle era, mission crews lived and worked in the well-appointed orbiter middeck, which could accommodate up to eight people with many of the comforts of home. Join space history curator Valerie Neal on Facebook Live to take a tour of the realistic middeck mockup in the Moving Beyond Earth exhibition gallery and imagine occupying this space with five or six other people for a week or two.
Planning to attend in-person? Meet in the Moving Beyond Earth gallery.
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