List of activities scheduled for UMaine Space Day- designed for high-school aged students:
9:30 am to 10:30 am – Planetarium Program “From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA”, Versant Power Astronomy Center. Registration link.
Join NASA’s engineers as they design, test, and launch today’s hottest missions into space. Witness the enormity of the new James Webb Space Telescope, the intensity of Goddard Space Flight Center’s testing facilities, and the excitement of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. From blueprint to blastoff, experience how robotic space flight is pushing the frontiers of human exploration to the very edges of the universe! Watch the trailer.
10:45 am to 11:45 am – Challenger Learning Center Rocket Launch, Versant Power Astronomy Center, outside parking lot.
12 noon to 1:00 pm – Lunch: Coupons for Hilltop Dining provided
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm – Lunar Habitat/MESAT1 Groud Station Tour, at the NASA Habitat located behind the Mahaney Dome
The 3,600-square foot laboratory building contains a 42-foot by 10-foot circular inflatable structure which will be the blueprint for a habitat to be used on future NASA missions to the moon and planets, expected by 2030. The structure, which will be deployed as a human habitat, will have wireless sensors embedded in a layer of its fabric walls to monitor the structural integrity, micrometeoroid impacts and internal environmental conditions. The sensors will be able to detect impacts and leaks in the structure. UMaine faculty and students have developed algorithms for relaying data.
Space is limited!
Lunch coupons for UMaine Memorial Union are provided