The Intrepid Museum is busy with the hustle and bustle of this year’s Space & Science Festival, which continues through the weekend! Our partners, including Final Frontier Design, Honeybee Robotics, Intergalactic Travel Bureau, CUNYSAT-1, FIRST Robotics, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, Con Edison, National Space Society of New York, Town of Ramapo Challenger Learning Center and Coca-Cola, have activities and demonstrations set up on the pier, and there are more programs and events in the Museum.

Over the past couple of days, Museum educators and tour guides have given space-themed talks and demonstrations. On Thursday night, visitors enjoyed a free screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the flight deck. And that’s just the start—the Space & Science Festival continues through Sunday, July 26, with an exciting lineup of festivities.

Check out the Museum’s pop-up planetarium or watch Andrew Dawson re-create the entire 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing with nothing more than his hands, a table and Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 10, in his performance of Space Panorama in the Space Shuttle Pavilion. Join NASA astrophysicist Steve Howell and former White House pastry chef Bill Yosses as they launch gourmet cuisine into outer space. Then plan the holiday experience of a lifetime—on another planet—with the Intergalactic Travel Bureau.

On Sunday, July 26, at 1:00pm, visitors get the chance to hear from former NASA astronaut Pamela Melroy, one of only two women who commanded the space shuttle. Melroy, who will share her experiences with journalist Lynn Sherr, piloted two shuttle missions—STS-92 in 2000 and STS-112 in 2002—and logged more than 38 days in space.

Alan Stern, principal investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, will also share the exciting findings from the Pluto flyby of July 14, 2015, during a presentation on Sunday at 3:30pm in hangar 3.

Don’t forget that the NASA Orbit Pavilion is set up on Pier 86. Scientists and artists at NASA, inspired by the ocean-like sounds heard in a seashell, designed and built the Orbit Pavilion to draw attention to NASA’s Earth-observing missions. All events and activities on Pier 86 are free and open to the public.

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