Museum of Flight Launches Major New Space Station Exhibition

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On June 8, The Museum of Flight premieres Home Beyond Earth, an immersive new exhibition that goes to the heart of the human experience of living in space. With a focus on space stations past, present, and future, Home Beyond Earth features over fifty artifacts, models, space-flown objects, and uniforms. Digital tokens allow visitors to make their journey through the exhibit and personalize their imagined life in the space station of their choice. The exhibit’s vivid digital projections and over a dozen interactive elements help visitors enjoy and realize both the dreams and realities of living and working in space. Home Beyond Earth was created by The Museum of Flight and closes in early 2025.

Imagine living in a place where the night sky is always clear and sparkles with countless stars, and every day the entire world shines outside your windows. Today’s new era of spaceflight promises space hotels, orbiting cities, and industrial jobs on the Moon. Home Beyond Earth shows how far we have come to realize this vision, and helps us ponder a future that may or may not, be for you.

Home Beyond Earth Public Programs

Throughout the run of the exhibition, the Museum will offer provocative programs that bring the challenges of living in space down to Earth. Astronauts, space industry leaders, authors and futurists will cover topics ranging from sci-fi and living in space with disabilities, to space archeology and space law. Home Beyond Earth will also delightfully spice the Museum’s seasonal events and weekly family activities throughout the year.

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Founded in 1965, the independent, nonprofit Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, annually serving over 600,000 visitors. The Museum’s collection includes more than 160 historically significant airplanes and spacecraft, from the first fighter plane (1914) to today’s 787 Dreamliner. Attractions at the 23-acre, 5-building Seattle campus include the original Boeing Company factory, the NASA Space Shuttle Trainer, Air Force One, Concorde, Lockheed Blackbird and Apollo Moon rockets. In addition to the Seattle campus adjacent to King County International Airport, the Museum also has its 3-acre Restoration Center and Reserve Collection at Paine Field in Everett (not currently open to the public).

With a foundation of aviation history, the Museum is also a hub of news and dialogue with leaders in the emerging field of private spaceflight ventures. The Museum’s aviation and space library and archives are the largest on the West Coast. More than 150,000 individuals are served annually by the Museum’s onsite and outreach educational programs. The Museum of Flight is accredited by the American Association of Museums, and is an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

The Museum of Flight is located at 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle, Exit 158 off Interstate 5 on Boeing Field halfway between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport. The Museum is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum admission for adults is $26. Youth 5 through 17 are $18, youth 4 and under are free. Seniors 65 and over $22. Groups of ten or more: $20 per adult, $13 per youth, $18 per senior. Admission is free from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month. The Museum offers free quarterly Sensory Day programs, $3 admission through the Museums for All program, plus military and other discounts. Parking is always free. There is a full lunch menu café operated by McCormick & Schmick’s. For general Museum information, please call 206-764-5720 or visit www.museumofflight.org.