#NASA MARS DRONE FULL#

“But they make all those images happen within a half-hour display - similar to, like, electronic fireworks.”

“I think it’s right now 150 to 200 drones, and they’re choreographed to do maybe the American flag, they may do a UFO, those types of things,” Hartung said. The flight was initially planned for May 4, but has been delayed while the United Launch Alliance prepares the launch vehicle.Īt 10 each night, Hartung said, the festival has organized drone performances with Firefly Drone Shows to close out the evenings. The mission plans to take off from Florida carrying a diverse array of scientific instruments from around the world. “But also on Pittsburgh Street will be the ‘Moonshot Museum,’ which is connected with Astrobotic and everything they’re doing on the moon,” Hartung said.Ī representative of the Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic, an aerospace company, spoke at the Mars New Year Blast Off Dinner in late February about its Peregrine Mission 1 - the first commercial mission to the moon, and the first American landing on the moon since 1972. Army will provide a climbing wall for visitors to challenge themselves. “So we have ‘NASA row,’ basically, on Pittsburgh Street,” Hartung said, “and then also on Pittsburgh Street the Air Force is providing a flight simulator.”Īdditionally, he said the U.S. While NASA’s extensive exhibition on Pittsburgh Street remains “one of the centerpieces” of the massive Mars New Year Festival, Hartung said visitors can expect a cadre of interactive exhibits spanning science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics - STEAM. “That will be on what we call the main stage, in and around where the spaceship (sculpture) is.” “And they’re also going to provide us with three or four speakers (for) the event,” he said.

#NASA MARS DRONE FULL#

NASA’s full exhibit on Pittsburgh Street also will feature a miniature eight-wheeled Mars rover, samples and rock cores from the planet, Hartung said. “That’ll be on Pittsburgh Street with NASA, too.”

“That’s going to be really neat,” Hartung said. The simulation will be only the second showing in the United States after NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s previous showing in April. “You can walk through and get a sort of simulated experience to some degree, the best we can, in terms of being on the red planet,” Hartung said. The 16-foot tunnel will include footage and sound provided by NASA, he said, offering visitors a first look at what walking across the red dunes of Mars might be like for future colonists. “It’s like a tunnel you walk into and it’s the ‘Mars Experience.’” “The (NASA) Jet Propulsion Lab tried this back in mid-April at their open house in Pasadena, Calif.,” Hartung said. Maps of the Red Planet and the moon will then be given to the Mars Area School District.Ĭoordinator Gregg Hartung, of the Mars New Year Festival, said this year the team is literally bringing the red planet to the borough Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10. Mars Robotics Association coach Jeff Beckstead plans to make the maps a part of the robotics group's “Robotics Village” event at the Mars New Year Festival.

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