Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001dps....33.5801s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #33, #58.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1560
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The International Planetarium Society (IPS) (http://www.ips-planetarium.org/) is the largest professional organization of planetariums in the world. It has members on nearly every continent serving millions of visitors each year. About 70 percent of the IPS members are school-based planetariums. The planetarium staff is the "front-line" in their local communities whenever an interesting event is happening in space, whether it is a meteor shower, a shuttle flight, or a Mars landing. Local media and educators, as well as the general public, call upon them to explain and comment on space events for their local communities. The number one request from the planetarium community is for images. Led by the Solar System Exploration Education and Public Outreach Forum, NASA's Office of Space Science Education Network (http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/resources/ecosystem/index.htm) is deepening its relationship with IPS by formalizing grassroots efforts to supply the planetarium professionals with the latest news, results, images, and plans regarding NASA's space science missions. A tool developed to alert planetariums and museums to upcoming events - even several years in the future - is the decade-at-a-glance Solar System Exploration calendar of mission launches and events (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/whatsnew/calendar.html). This calendar allows users to click on events for more information. Expansion of this calendar to encompass all NASA Space Science missions is planned. Training sessions for planetarium and museum staff and docents are also under discussion. This work is supported by NASA's Office of Space Science.
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