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Let’s build a rocket ship!

Maggie2024-06-06T20:03:58-04:00October 19, 2020|Categories: Exhibits, Programs|Tags: aerodynamic, boosters, craft, crafts for kids, engineering, flight, mission to mars, model, models, Museum, rocket ship, rockets, Science, science for kids, space, space flight, space mission, WonderLab|

Have you ever wondered how rocket ships are able to take people to the moon? In this activity, we will [...]

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A Look into the Life of Captain Kathryn Janeway

Maggie2024-05-24T17:31:03-04:00October 16, 2020|Categories: Programs, Uncategorized|Tags: 1995-2001, 2336, aerospace, after dark, Captain Janeway, coffee, counterpoint, engineering, holodeck, janeway, Janeway Collective, Kate Mulgrew, live long and prosper, May 20, Science, scientist first, space, spock, startrek, statue, trek, USS Voyager, voyager, vulcan, vulcan salute, WonderLab|

Realizations and Exclamations from a (former) Star Trek Know Nothing Earlier this week, I had no idea that my newest [...]

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Blast Off! NASA’s New Era

Maggie2024-06-06T20:14:20-04:00June 5, 2020|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder, Wonderlab Education Blog|Tags: apollo mission, Aretemis program, astronaut, astronomy, Douglas Hurley, dragon, dreams, Elon Musk, endeavour, international space station, launch, mission control, mission to mars, NASA, puff the magic dragon, Robert Behnken, space, space flight, space launch, space program, space shuttle, Space x, spacecraft|

Photo by Mariam Espacio. Milky Way across the starry sky. It all started with a dream. Not the [...]

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Celebrate the Moon Landing 50th Anniversary at WonderLab

Maggie2024-06-17T19:37:30-04:00July 17, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: anniversary party, apollo 11, astronomy, launch, moon landing, NASA, night at the museum, outer space, rocket science, rockets, Science, solar system, space, space travel, WonderLab|

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing during WonderLab’s special event Night at the Museum: Moon Landing [...]

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Snoopy in Space at WonderLab

Maggie2024-06-17T19:49:16-04:00May 14, 2019|Categories: Mission, News, Programs|Tags: anniversary, apollo 10, apollo 11, charles schultz, charlie brown, moon landing, NASA, snoopy, space, space mission, space race|

The year is 1969. The Space Race is heating up, and the USSR and the USA are vying for dominance [...]

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Great Balls of Fire

Maggie2022-09-21T18:58:59-04:00July 21, 2018|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: astrophysics, explosion, space, stars, STEAM, Sun, supernova|

There is one WonderLab exhibit that you always have to reach out and touch. It stands right in the entrance [...]

Rays from Outer Space!

Maggie2018-06-16T02:33:00-04:00June 16, 2018|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: astronomy, Cosmic rays, magnetosphere, radiation, space, supernova|

When I first started writing this blog post, I was nervous because there’s something about Cosmic Rays that really freaks [...]