MOAS Space Day

Event Description

Join us for our 3^rd annual MOAS Space Day, where we celebrate all things space in an engaging and interactive environment. You will learn about the science, exploration, and beauty of space through exciting lectures, shows in our main planetarium and blow-up planetarium, and hands-on activities. This year’s event is extra special with the addition of our new space exhibit, NASA Innovations: How Space Technology Shapes our Everyday World, that celebrates NASA spinoffs with real space flown artifacts from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Throughout the Museum, there will also be displays from ERAU’s ERFSEDS Rocket Club, Commercial Space Operations Student Organization, and the Amateur Astronomy Club. We cannot wait to see you for this out-of-this-world event.

Free for members or future members pay $6.00 for adults, $3.00 for children (6-17), and free for children 5 and under. Tickets for the Planetarium presentations are included with admission and on a first-come-first-served basis. 

Schedule

11:00am: Little Star That Could Planetarium Show

11:30am-4:30pm: Portable Planetarium shows – ongoing every half hour

12:00pm: Live “NASA’s Journey to Space” Planetarium Show

12:30pm-3:30pm: Paper rocket building and launching in the Root Family Auditorium
Shoot for the stars in support of the Charles and Linda Williams Children's Museum! Successfully create and luanch your own paper rocket and the General Electric Volunteers will donate up to $50.00 to the Museum.

1:00pm: Life as a Star Gazer: Communicating Astronomy with the Public, with James Albury, host of the Star Gazers PBS Show

1:00pm-5:00pm: Docent led tours of NASA Innovations exhibit – ongoing every hour

1:00pm-4:00pm: Solar telescope viewing outside – weather permitting

2:00pm: “You Run the Show,” with Curator of Astronomy, Seth Mayo

3:00pm: The Life of an Astronomy Student: Observations, Calibrations, and the Largest Telescope in Florida, with Maggie Gallant, Embry-Riddle Graduate Student

4:00pm: The Hot and Energetic Universe Planetarium Show

5:00pm: Electrolaze Laser Show Under the Stars – Beautiful views of the Universe with exciting laser music.