Η Google, suggests going back to the moon. Children from elementary school and even kindergarten visit 22 March 2014 Cultural Center "Hellenic Cosmos" where a comprehensive, and especially fascinating, exhibition is hosted which convinces young pupils that they will live the foundation of the first human colony on the Moon, that the first space elevator will be built, and that they can begin practicing for a trip to the Red Planet.
The exhibition is called "The Conquest of Space", a conquest that has already been established by the mission of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1, from where the journey to space begins.
The most important takeaway from a family or school visit to Piraeus 254 is the feeling that space exploration is not only not over, but is in a very interesting phase. The visitor will look at the moon at night with others eyea, after he has smelled the gunpowder of the Moon, he will have seen Bigelow's model dwelling, the representation of an entire human colony at the south pole of the Earth's satellite, and he will have calmed his fears by seeing that with a space elevator he will be able to come and go rocketing down to Earth, not needing $46.000 to bring a frying pan to his family's Bigelow.
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The visitor will then "wear" the astronaut's new (lightweight) outfit to photograph and put himself in a series of trials to be able to travel to Mars. Answers to many questions about life on Mars undertake to give a series of representations of how astronauts sleep and eat in a zero-gravity environment. The tour ends in an interactive multi-touch table, where the visitor is now invited to create atmosphere to start cultivating on the distant planet.
"The Conquest of Space" exhibition is a creation of the American Museum of Natural History in New York in collaboration with MadaTech, the National Museum of Science, Technology and Space of Israel (MadaTech, Haifa, Israel).
Within the framework of the exhibition, the Hellenic Cosmos is collaborating with the Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens. This means that the Observatory participates in the exhibition with an informative video about it astronomy (το ηλιακό μας σύστημα και η αστρική εξέλιξη), έκθεση ψηφιακής photos (20 Greek astrophotographers photograph the night sky) and audiovisual presentation with sounds from space (compositions of modern electronic music based on sounds from our near and not so near space). Also, lectures are planned with free admission and observation of the night sky from the atrium of the cultural center. The first speech is scheduled for April 11, 2014 at 18:00 with the speaker Mr. Vassilis Charmandaris, Associate Professor, Director of the Institute entitled "Searching for Truth with Light". Mr. Charmandaris will explain how astronomers use the light of the sun and stars to understand some of the properties of the universe and to predict, with sufficient accuracy, its future.
The first big step for humanity should not be the last
The Tholos, the Virtual Reality Theater of the Hellenic World is one of the 120 planetariums around the world that portrays the film "Back to the Moon .. Forever". This is a presentation of the global competition organized by Google, titled Google Lunar X, for individuals without a state subsidy to be able to send and call spaceplane robots on the Moon, which will take 500 meters on its surface and send photos and videos to Earth. The prize, the biggest in history, 30 million dollars. The film in Tholos presents the efforts made by groups of children across the globe. More about Google Lunar X can be viewed at googlelunarxprize.org
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