Museum of Science and Industry

The Museum of Science and Industry's mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone by making exhibits, collections, and content accessible through hands-on experiences.

• At the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, students are immersed in a realistic Mission Control and Space Station environment: computer consoles, communication headsets, continuous messages on the loud speakers, electronic messages, teammates they can only see on video monitors, and many more hands-on activities. In this environment the students become astronauts for a day in a simulated space mission, direct research, and conduct experiments.

Did you know:

• Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
  Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way, is 2.5 million light years away.
• The light from Andromeda, which allows us to view it through a telescope, began its journey more than 2 million years ago. As a result, the galaxy may not even exist today.

Links:

http://www.mosi.org

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