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Servicing the Hubble Space Telescope - Exploring Space Lectures

March 26, 2015

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A black circular disk with tick marks across the bottom half and a dial pointing in their direction. Another gauge that looks like a thermometer is set into the disk, and is 3/4 of the way filled with red liquid.

Steering Gauge, Drexler, Zeppelin Staaken

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Going Through Neil Armstrong's Purse

March 20, 2015
A pair of two stars close together in the night time sky. The left star has a red tint whereas the second, smaller star on the right has a minor blue tint.

Albireo, March 18, 2015

Top view of a green and gray camouflage fighter military monoplane with two engines. Monoplane is on display in the Museum.

Messerschmitt Me 262

Grayscale view of Ceres, a terrestial dwarf planet. The sun is mostly facing away from this perspective, causing the dwarf planet to have a crescent shape.

Dawn Enters Orbit Around Ceres

Two views of a white star in an otherwise mostly black sky. The white star in the left view image is at full brightness, whereas the right view shows the star at one third of its full brightness.

Variable star Algol, the "Demon Star"

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Fixing Hubble

February 26, 2015
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Space Junk: Fast Trash - STEM in 30

February 24, 2015
Parts of a large wind tunnel fan sit on the floor of the Museum prior to reconstruction.

Wind Tunnel Fan Components

Outside of the Museum, a wind tunnel fan is transported by a truck with a large flatbed into the Museum.

Wind Tunnel Fan Transported by Truck

Museum staff members move parts of a large wind tunnel fan around other objects inside the Museum.

Maneuvering Wind Tunnel Fan

Two views of Ceres next to each other.

Dwarf Planet: Ceres

A trolley is used to transport a large wooden blade belonging to a wind tunnel fan in the Museum.

Transporting Fan Blades

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Bringing an Object to Life - What's New in Aerospace?

February 06, 2015
Two disk views of the Sun, side-by-side, with further panels to the right showing specific features. The left disk view reveals the Sun's surface and shows a few sunspots (dark spots). On the right disk, the Sun's chromosphere reveals filaments (dark lines of gases floating above the Sun) and prominences (floating gases above the edge of the disk) on the right side. Multiple phages (lighter cloud areas) surrounding dark spots are also visible. The set of panels reveal the highlights in a closer view.

A Rapidly Changing Sun - Feb 4, 2015