Upcoming Events

Storytellers Series: In-Flight Refueling – Winning the Cold War

Space Museum Galaxy Theater

Presenter: Ron Williamson The presenter served on the front lines with an Air Force In-Flight Refueling unit during the Cold War. Remember “duck and cover,” fallout shelters, Khrushchev (“we will...

Storytellers Series: Reconnaissance Systems – Scanning for Truth

Space Museum Galaxy Theater

Descriptions & illustrations of the Apollo Guidance Computer, the Display and Keyboard Unit (DSKY), how the astronauts used it and how it interfaced to the remainder of the Command Module, and comparisons to show similarity with other computer systems including Windows programs.

Storytellers Series: NASA’s Deep Space Network

Presenters: John Jennings & Donn Anderson NASA has created a communication system that controls and receives data from many space probes and is never out of communication. The Deep Space...

Storytellers Series: The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Joint Mission

Presenter: Gary Sohn Apollo-Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July, 1975. Millions of people around the...

Storytellers Series: The Apollo Computer – Out of this World Computing

Descriptions & illustrations of the Apollo Guidance Computer, the Display and Keyboard Unit (DSKY), how the astronauts used it and how it interfaced to the remainder of the Command Module, and comparisons to show similarity with other computer systems including Windows programs.

Storytellers Series: Ryan Firebee Drones

Presenter: Gary Sohn America's fleet of surveillance and attack drones are far older than most people realize. They've been dutifully getting shot out of the sky on behalf of our...

Storytellers Series: Comets – What are they?

Presenter: Gary Sohn The appearances of comets have been known to humans for millennia. Until the sixteenth century, comets were usually considered bad omens of death. What is their origin?...