Apollo 11 Celebration- California Science Center

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This FREE celebration will feature

• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with a custom portable planetarium for a live, interactive, immersive presentation about space science
• A team from University of Southern California (USC) with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system featuring an Apollo 15 astronaut. Guests can ask questions and hear answers from an interactive video of Command Module Pilot Al Worden and help “train” the system and improve the AI algorithm
• Meteorite Exploration: What’s the difference between a meteorite and the rocks in your backyard? Take a closer look to find out!
• Exploring Craters: Make a “crater” then learn how to study it like a scientist!
• Big Sun, Little Moon: In space, distance makes BIG things look pretty small. Experiment with distance to see if you can make a BIG thing hide behind something tiny
• Orbiting Objects: Earth isn’t the only object in space with gravity! Explore how every object in space pulls on every other object in space
• Objects in Motion: Gravity of objects in space can tell scientists a lot about what we can and cannot see as scientists explore look for exoplanets
• Land the Apollo Lunar Module: Take the controls as you approach Tranquility Base aboard Eagle. Do you have what it takes to land?

Discover a collection of historic artifacts up close

• Mercury-Redstone 2 space capsule that in January 1961 took a primate into space, a chimpanzee named Ham, in preparation for a human launch
• Gemini 11 space capsule flown by astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon in September 1966
• Apollo-Soyuz command module which is the actual Apollo capsule that docked with Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft in July 1975
• Ranger spacecraft which was sent to scope out the lunar surface and provide detailed images so that Apollo planners could select a landing site
• Spacesuits from the Mercury and Apollo eras
• Lunar sample

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