Celebrate the 65th Anniversary of the Launch of Miss Baker!  Miss Baker and her companion Able became the first U.S. animals to successfully complete a mission to space. On May 28, 1959, the pair were launched on a Jupiter missile, which took them on a 16-minute suborbital flight. They experienced 9 minutes of weightlessness.

July 15, 2023, 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

We are open July 4th! Join us in Spark!Lab to learn about and use the USA code to spell out the names of your favorite founding fathers and mothers.     Plus, don't miss building and launching paper air rockets in the Museum atrium next to our Dare to Explore: Frontiers of Space featured exhibit.

Take a trip to the Moon with the crew of Apollo 11 or zip around the cosmos on this Virtual Reality motion-based simulator. Different options are available for this motion-based simulation, including Space Walk: Danger in Orbit; Screaming Eagles VR; Wing Walker; and Tank Commander. Tickets are $12 or $10 for members 

Tour mockups of two ISS modules containing 20 full-scale replica racks that illustrate the Environmental Control and Life Support System, the food astronauts consume and a sleeping berth, among other necessary aspects of life and work aboard the station. A connecting node contains a full-scale replica of the Cupola Observation Module, which provides ISS astronauts their view of space and the Earth below. This exhibit is NASA grant-funded.