'From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA' premieres at UAA Planetarium - Oct. 20, 2017
by Michelle Saport |
From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA
Presented by UAA Astronomer and Planetarium Director Erin Hicks, Ph.D.
Friday, Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
UAA Planetarium and Visualization Theater
The five major aspects of a mission life cycle-design, construction, testing, launch and operations-are highlighted through examples of NASA missions, including the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the James Webb Space Telescope. Each of the show's three sections starts with a set-up question that defines the "problem" an engineering team aims to solve, giving audiences a balanced, large-scale overview of spacecraft engineering, described contextually using exciting, real-life projects. The show's major themes include problem solving to cope with expected (and unexpected) challenges, the importance of advance planning and testing, learning from mistakes and working with a team.
Tickets are on sale now at UAATix.com. For more information, including how to become a UAA Planetarium member, please visit uaa.alaska.edu/planetarium.
Don't miss these upcoming UAA Planetarium shows:
- Stars of the Alaskan Sky - Monsters Edition - Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m.
- AudioDome Live! with Super Citizen - Oct. 27, 8 p.m.
- Earthquake - Nov. 10, 6:30 p.m.
- Dynamic Earth - Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
- Neurotours - Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m.
- Natural Selection - Dec. 8, 8 p.m.
"'From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA' premieres at UAA Planetarium - Oct. 20, 2017" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.