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Thursday, October 14, 2021
North Side’s Moonshot Museum, dedicated to space exploration, unveils final designs
nextpittsburgh.com: It’s one small step for man — and just a few small steps from the Carnegie Science Center — but soon Pittsburgh will be closer to the moon and space travel than ever before.
I think this is a really cool concept for a museum – a museum about the moon, travelling to the moon, and putting things on the moon – in a facility that is quite literally making something that will be going to the moon. This is like putting a museum with a nice viewing window at Northrup Grumman in Seal Beach, where they have just finished fabricating the James Webb Space Telescope. This kind of on-site museum slash fabrication shop would make the experience of going to the museum even more immersive than just the exhibits themselves. I also was pretty surprised to see that the parent company, Astrobotic, received $200 million from NASA to deliver a rover to the moon – that is very, very cool. Towards the end of summer I helped one of the CMU science departments run some testing on a rover that will ultimately end up on the moon as well, and I have to wonder if Astrobotic will be the company in charge of getting the CMU rover (whose name is Morphin) to the moon. When the museum ultimately opens, I would love to take a trip across the river to visit.
At first I was just excited because of a space museum but the idea of the museum engaging with all of the facets that go into the process of building spacecraft and space exploration. It’s a very in depth look into a process that probably is not super accessible to understand. Inspiring people who might not know that something in there is a job they are interested in. That shows in how they put it together as well, particularly in the input provided by students as they set up the project, as well as the experts and others. I enjoy museums that give a range of experiences, for the very practical and informative to also be engaging and fun, you don’t need to be only one, despite the many times I’ve been told it is best to be solely informative, we don’t need to expect children at and the museums themselves to be solely “adult”.
I love museums that are interactive and immersive. This new planned one that the science center reminds of the Ronald Reagan Museum back in California. Not a big fan of Reagan, but I will not lie- His museum is super cool. There are rooms that are replicas of the Oval Office, a CIA conference room, and the Media room in the White House. The whole thing makes you feel like you are in a set, and that we are the performers in it. I think that aside from theatre, I really want to create something one day that is similar to this one, something that is more of an installation, and allows the audience to go inside, and become the performers. I also like the collaboration between the educational and the entertainment purpose of this design. I think it changes how the place is created, and it is interesting to see how purpose changes the decisions made with every choice.
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I think this is a really cool concept for a museum – a museum about the moon, travelling to the moon, and putting things on the moon – in a facility that is quite literally making something that will be going to the moon. This is like putting a museum with a nice viewing window at Northrup Grumman in Seal Beach, where they have just finished fabricating the James Webb Space Telescope. This kind of on-site museum slash fabrication shop would make the experience of going to the museum even more immersive than just the exhibits themselves. I also was pretty surprised to see that the parent company, Astrobotic, received $200 million from NASA to deliver a rover to the moon – that is very, very cool. Towards the end of summer I helped one of the CMU science departments run some testing on a rover that will ultimately end up on the moon as well, and I have to wonder if Astrobotic will be the company in charge of getting the CMU rover (whose name is Morphin) to the moon. When the museum ultimately opens, I would love to take a trip across the river to visit.
At first I was just excited because of a space museum but the idea of the museum engaging with all of the facets that go into the process of building spacecraft and space exploration. It’s a very in depth look into a process that probably is not super accessible to understand. Inspiring people who might not know that something in there is a job they are interested in. That shows in how they put it together as well, particularly in the input provided by students as they set up the project, as well as the experts and others. I enjoy museums that give a range of experiences, for the very practical and informative to also be engaging and fun, you don’t need to be only one, despite the many times I’ve been told it is best to be solely informative, we don’t need to expect children at and the museums themselves to be solely “adult”.
I love museums that are interactive and immersive. This new planned one that the science center reminds of the Ronald Reagan Museum back in California. Not a big fan of Reagan, but I will not lie- His museum is super cool. There are rooms that are replicas of the Oval Office, a CIA conference room, and the Media room in the White House. The whole thing makes you feel like you are in a set, and that we are the performers in it. I think that aside from theatre, I really want to create something one day that is similar to this one, something that is more of an installation, and allows the audience to go inside, and become the performers. I also like the collaboration between the educational and the entertainment purpose of this design. I think it changes how the place is created, and it is interesting to see how purpose changes the decisions made with every choice.
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