Space Week at The Tech - Celebrate NASA'S 50th anniversary ONE WEEK ONLY!

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Tuesday, May 13 through Sunday, May 18

Celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary and man's efforts in the final frontier. SPACE! Learn more about NASA's space program and plans for a return to the Moon.

See a space Robonaut Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA. The Robonaut project seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent. They are using a humanoid shape to meet NASA's increasing requirements for Extravehicular Activity on the Moon and beyond.

See models of NASA's future space vehicles like: models of the new NASA ‘Constellation’ Space Vehicles, & a full scale Mars Rover. ‘Constellation’ is the name for all the new space vehicles NASA will be using to send the Astronauts to the MOON, Mars & beyond.

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Orion Model – Orion will be capable of carrying crew and cargo to the space station. It will be able to rendezvous with a lunar landing module and an Earth departure stage in low-Earth orbit to carry crews to the moon and, one day, to Mars.

Full-scale Mars Rover PLUS McMerdo Mars Panoramas, in 3D – See the Mars landscape in 3D as taken by the Mars Rovers.



space weekPlus see Mars Mark III Space Suit: Future spacewalkers will roam the surface of the Moon and Mars. This spacesuit will be used to explore the surface of Mars. The explorers, wearing spacesuits specially-designed for the Martian environment, will scour the surface looking for clues to the planet's history and evidence for signs of life.