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Last modified on Tue 13 Jul 2021 10.20 EDT “This, what you’re doing today, never happens,” Nasa’s David Seidel told us. “This is a rare chance,” agreed the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Michael Watkins, welcoming us into the lab’s spacecraft assembly facility, located in the hills outside Pasadena, California. The exceedingly unusual adventure awaiting us was a trip into the clean room where Perseverance, Nasa’s latest Mars rover, having been assembled under conditions of exacting sterility, sat awaiting shipment to Cape Canaveral. Our visit, in December 2019, had...

A sizable crowd showed up on a sunny Friday afternoon to witness the groundbreaking of the $16 million dollar Rocky Mountain Gardens and Exploration Center that will contain the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium.

Not many people have a planetarium in their homes. But most Madison Metropolitan School District students have a Chromebook. And as MMSD planetarium director Geoff Holt has adapted the venue’s programming for the virtual world people have operated in since March, that means students have more access to explore astronomy through the new modeling program he’s had to use. “I’m even teaching them how to use this so if they have questions like, ‘What would the sky have looked like on the day I was born?’ They can actually check that themselves,” Holt said. “...