By New Mexico Museum of Space History
• 3 hours ago
ALAMOGORDO – The New Mexico Museum of Space History, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is pleased to announce that it will re-open to the public on National Space Day, Friday, May 7. The Museum will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, closed on Monday and Tuesday. A temporary reduced entry fee of $5 per person will be in effect, due to ongoing renovation and other projects. Capacity will be limited.
“We are all very excited to welcome the public back into the museum,” said Executive Director Christopher Orwoll. “While we have been closed, there’s been a lot of work going on and it continues, so we ask the public to pardon our dust as we continue much needed upgrades throughout the building.”
Space Museum to reopen May 7
The New Mexico Museum of Space History will reopen to the public on May 7, National Space Day.
The museum will be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and admission will be $5 per person.
The museum will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The reduced entry fee is due to ongoing renovations and other projects.
“We are all very excited to welcome the public back into the museum,” said Executive Director Christopher Orwoll said in a news release. “While we have been closed, there’s been a lot of work going on and it continues, so we ask the public to pardon our dust as we continue much needed upgrades throughout the building.”
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In this historic photo, military personnel are seen moving “Jumbo” to Trinity Site. One of the concerns of the scientists who built the “Gadget” nuclear device that was detonated at Trinity Site in 1945, was that the bomb might not actually go off. In order to preserve the 13 pounds of plutonium in case of failed detonation, an 80 ton steel vessel named “Jumbo” was built with the intention of imploding the device inside. The $12 million vessel was never used for that purpose because by the time the test was nearly ready, scientists were confident that it would work. Instead, “Jumbo” was suspended on a steel tower 800 meters from ground zero. The tower was completely destroyed in the explosion, but “Jumbo” remained very much intact. Later, the military tried to destroy it using eight 500 pound bombs, but only succeeded in blowing the ends off of it. What remains can still be
By New Mexico Museum of Space History
• 4 hours ago
Credit Trinity test marker Reservations for the October Trinity Site motor coach tour, hosted by the New Mexico Museum of Space History and International Space Hall of Fame Foundation, are now being taken through the museum’s website. The tour, which is pending current Department of Health restrictions due to the pandemic, is scheduled for Saturday, October 2, 2021. Trinity Site is where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945.
White Sands Missile Range typically opens Trinity Site to the public on the first Saturdays in April and October, although both events in 2020 and the April 2021 tour were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Several thousand people usually visit the site on those dates.
40th anniversary of first space shuttle orbital mission a bittersweet occasion
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This is an early morning scene at the Kennedy Space Center s Launch Complex 39, with the space shuttle Columbia in position on Pad A at right in March 1981. The shuttle was launched on April 12, 1981, with astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen aboard. Photo courtesy of NASA
Space shuttle Columbia lifts off, marking the first shuttle orbital launch, on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo courtesy of NASA | License Photo
Young (L), the commander, and Crippen, the pilot, were the Columbia crew for the first orbital flight of the space shuttle. Photo courtesy of NASA