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    Explore Meteor Crater (Barringer Crater), Arizona

    Explore Meteor Crater (Barringer Crater), Arizona

    Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of "Meteor Crater" from the n...
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    Watch Meteor Shower

    Watch Meteor Shower

    A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate ...
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    Visit Mount John University Observatory, New Zealand

    Visit Mount John University Observatory, New Zealand

    University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory (UCMJO), previously known as Mt John University Observatory (MJUO), is New Zealand's premier astronomical research observatory. It is situated at 1,029 metres (3,376 ft) ASL atop Mount John at the northern end of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island, and was established in 1965. There are many telescopes on site inclu...
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    Visit Musée de l'Air et l'Espace, Bourget, France

    Visit Musée de l'Air et l'Espace, Bourget, France

    The Musée de l'air et de l'espace, is a French aerospace museum, located at the south-eastern edge of Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, and in the commune of Le Bourget. It was inaugurated in 1919 after a proposal by the celebrated aeronautics engineer Albert Caquot (1881–1976). Occupying over 150,000 square metres (1,600,000 sq ft) of land and hangars,...
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    Visit NASA Memorials (Arlington National Cemetery), Virginia

    Visit NASA Memorials (Arlington National Cemetery), Virginia

    NASA Memorials pays tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. Two of the astronauts who were killed on January 27, 1967 by a flash fire inside the Apollo 1 Command Module, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, are buried at the ce...
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    Visit National Astronomical Observatory, Baja California, Mexico

    Visit National Astronomical Observatory, Baja California, Mexico

    Mexico's National Astronomical Observatory (El Observatorio Astronómico Nacional - OAN) is located in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in Baja California. The current site has been found to have excellent astronomical seeing. There are three optical telescopes on the summit of Sierra San Pedro Mártir, all with a Ritchey-Chrétien design: The 2.12 m ...
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    Visit Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum, Wapakoneta, Ohio

    Visit Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum, Wapakoneta, Ohio

    The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the hometown of Neil Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon. The museum chronicles Ohio's contributions to the history of space flight. Among the items on display are an F5D Skylancer, the Gemini 8 spacecraft in which Armstrong flew (and in which he made the first space docking), Apollo 11 artif...
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    Visit Nice Observatory, Nice, France

    Visit Nice Observatory, Nice, France

    The Observatoire de Nice (Nice Observatory) is an astronomical observatory located in Nice, France on the summit of Mont Gros. The observatory was founded in 1879 by the banker Raphaël Bischoffsheim. The architect was Charles Garnier, and Gustave Eiffel designed the main dome. The 77 cm (30 in) refractor telescope made by Henry and Gautier became operational arou...
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    See Northern Lights (aurora borealis)

    See Northern Lights (aurora borealis)

    The Northern Lights have spawned myths and legends related to their source among indigenous peoples wherever they are seen. The magical streaks and curtains of glowing greens, blues, yellows and reds, best experienced under the night sky, are the result of enhanced solar winds commensurate with sunspot activity blowing over Earth’s magnetic field. The particles ...
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    See Northern Lights in Iceland

    See Northern Lights in Iceland

    View the spectacular Northern Lights from Iceland. Venture into Iceland’s countryside to seek out the Aurora Borealis, one of nature’s most wondrous phenomena. As you gaze up at the shimmering night sky, hear more about the science behind this occurrence from your knowledgeable guide. The Northern Lights appear in many forms: There may be a fleeting strea...
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    See Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF), Kennedy Space Center, Florida

    See Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF), Kennedy Space Center, Florida

    An Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) was one of three hangars where U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights. All three such facilities, OPF-1, OPF-2 and OPF-3, were located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at Launch Complex 39. They were located west of the Vehicle Assembly Building, where the orbiter was mated with its External Tank...
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    See Orionids Meteor Shower

    See Orionids Meteor Shower

    The Orionids meteor shower, often shortened to the Orionids, is the most prolific meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet. The Orionids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Orion, but they can be seen over a large area of the sky. The Orionids are an annual meteor shower which last approximately o...
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    Visit Owens Valley Radio Observatory, California

    Visit Owens Valley Radio Observatory, California

    Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California (USA) in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra Nevada approximately 350 kilometers (220 mi) north of Los Angeles and 20 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Bishop. It was established in 1958, and is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Calte...
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    Visit Palomar Observatory, San Diego, California

    Visit Palomar Observatory, San Diego, California

    Palomar Observatory is a privately owned astronomical observatory located in San Diego County, California (USA), 145 kilometers (90 mi) southeast of Los Angeles, California, in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) located in Pasadena, California. Research time is granted to Caltech and its research pa...
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    Visit Paranal Observatory, Chile

    Visit Paranal Observatory, Chile

    Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on Cerro Paranal at 2,635 m (8,645 ft) altitude, 120 km (70 mi) south of Antofagasta, Chile, and operated by the European Southern Observatory. The Very Large Telescope (VLT), the largest telescope on Paranal, is composed of four separate 8.2 m (320 in) telescopes. In addition, the four main telescopes can com...
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