January 8, 2022 Science Saturday at Pizza9 in the White Sands Mall - “Build Your Own Spacecraft!” Museum educators help kids design and build their idea for a spacecraft, then they use special spin and shake contraptions to see if each spacecraft has the right stuff! This activity is fun for all ages and is based on the National Informal STEM Education Network program.
The New Mexico Museum of Space History will be holding the Governor’s Commission meeting on Friday, January 28, 2022 at 1 p.m.
Apollo 14 was a mission of unusual things – from problems with the docking procedure that jeopardized the lunar landing, to the first round of golf on the surface of the moon – the third landing on the moon was a “wow” by any standard. Learn more on Friday, February 4th, when Museum Outreach Coordinator Tony Gondola presents “Back in the Saddle Again: The Flight of Apollo 14” as part of the museum’s monthly Launch Pad Lecture series.
February 12, 2022 Science Saturday at Pizza9 in the White Sands Mall - “Put Your Spin on Space Art!” Learn how stars are born in a giant gas cloud called a nebula, then use our special spinners to create your own nebula!
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.
