Events

Join educators and experts from the Smithsonian to explore all of your astronomy questions in this live, casual conversation. They will share some of their favorite topics in astronomy at the Smithsonian, including space-based telescopes that humans have helped to launch, like the Hubble Space Telescope!

In this live chat, join STEM in 30 and an astronaut to learn more about launching on a space shuttle.

Last year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission accomplished something not done in nearly 50 years by a U.S. space mission — sampling the surface of another planetary body for return to Earth. In this talk, you'll hear about the 15 year odyssey of proposing, building, and launching OSIRIS-REx, leading up to a year-long orbital mission and the moment OSIRIS-REx sampled the surface of asteroid Bennu.