Launch Pad Lecture Slated for Friday, March 4 (Alamogordo, New Mexico, March 2, 2022) – Artemis 1 will be NASA’s first moon mission since Apollo. The uncrewed mission will take a multi-week journey to the moon and back to demonstrate that the Orion spacecraft is ready to carry astronauts, in preparation for the Artemis 2 […]
March 12, 2022 — The New Mexico Museum of Space History’s Science Saturday at Pizza9 in the White Sands Mall “A Bridge to Space” — How do you keep two rockets from crushing the fuel tank between them? Hold them in place with a special bridge! Try your hand at building the bridge at the […]
April 1, 2022 - Launch Pad Lecture at the NM Museum of Space History. “Home on the Range: From Ranches to Rockets” Location: Museum Second Floor. Speaker: NM Farm and Ranch Museum Curator of History, Leah Tookey.
April 9, 2022 — The New Mexico Museum of Space History’s Science Saturday at Pizza9 in the White Sands Mall “Exploring the Universe: Orbiting Objects” — This hands-on activity invites visitors to experiment with different sized and weighted balls on a stretchy fabric gravity well. The activity models gravitational attraction in space. Participants investigate how […]
The Museum and Theater are closed on Easter Sunday.
Regular Meeting of the New Mexico Museum of Space History’s Governor’s Commission Friday, April 29, 2022 The Governor’s Commission to the New Mexico Museum of Space History will hold a regular quarterly meeting on Friday, April 29, 2022, at 1:00 pm. The meeting will be held in person at the Clyde W. Tombaugh Education Center […]
May 6, 2022 – Launch Pad Lecture at the NM Museum of Space History. “We Chose to Go to the Moon: Kennedy’s Speech and the Space Race.” Location: Museum Second Floor. Speaker: The Museum of Space History Executive Director Chris Orwoll.
See how the Sun's magnetic field extends far out into space and sends bursts of magnetic energy across the solar system, while Earth's strong magnetic field helps protect us.
The Amateur Astronomy Group will be holding an Astronomy Event for the LUNAR ECLIPSE/Blood Moon in conjunction with the Astronomy League at the New Mexico Museum of Space History. The event is free to the public. Everyone is welcome. This exciting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education activity is geared towards encouraging people of […]
The monthly Launch Pad Lecture at the New Mexico Museum of Space History. Museum Executive Director Chris Orwoll will present “The Hammer and the Feather – Apollo 15 at 50.”
The topic is Stomp Rockets! Learn how to turn a bit of paper, PVC tubing, and a soda bottle into a space launcher! The next Science Saturday will be held on Saturday, July 9. The topic will be Exploring the Universe: Star Formation.
The monthly Launch Pad Lecture at the New Mexico Museum of Space History will feature guest speaker Peter P. Nickolenko, Director of Mission Operations for Virgin Galactic. His topic will be “Space Tourism” from the perspective of someone who knows the business from the ground up! Peter P. (Pete) Nickolenko joined Virgin Galactic in January […]
