Upcoming Events

Descriptions & illustrations of early US drones, what makes unmanned aerial vehicles different than airplanes, illustrations of how they have been used, some descriptions of their onboard sensors, and associations with the museum’s exhibits.

Presenters: Donn Anderson and John Jennings What to do after Apollo ended? Use and repurpose the hardware planned for the cancelled Apollo 18, 19, and 20 missions into the gigantic...

Presenter: Bill Carton Launched in 1958, America's second satellite Vanguard 1 is the oldest known debris still on orbit. Recent estimates are that as many as one hundred million pieces...

Presenter: Bill Carton Current Space Activity: Countries as well as private companies are now heavily involved in space - with crewed spacecraft and private satellites. Including: Robots on other planets...

Presenter: John Bronson Descriptions & illustrations of what led to the Vietnam War, what the US was attempting to accomplish with its aircraft, illustration of the types of missions assigned to...

Presenter: John Bronson Descriptions & illustrations of the museum’s sole exhibit on Maritime Air Patrol / Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft is highlighted.  Specifically described are the development of the defenses against...

Presenters: John Jennings and Donn Anderson As a key part of the Artemis program’s focus of putting humans back on the surface of the Moon, for more than a decade...

Presenter: Bill Carton Starting slowly in 2001, orbital space tourism now has 17 flown participants, with dozens on the waiting lists. Suborbital or very high altitude balloon missions have flown...

Presenters: Donn Anderson and John Jennings How do you catch up with a comet? What would it be like to orbit a comet before, during, and after its close encounter...