Latest Adler Planetarium Stories
Full-Size Mars Curiosity Rover Exclusively on Display, Free Solar Observing, Summer Sky Watching Tips, Enter to Win a Telescope and More! CHICAGO, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Celebrate the opening of the Adler's new show Cosmic Wonder and the summer-long programming, 100 Days of Wonder, with free solar observing (weather permitting), sky watching tips from Adler staff, Curiosity mission updates, family activities and more! Adler visitors can also enter to win a...
CHICAGO, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees of the Adler Planetarium has elected accomplished astrophysicist and experienced academic leader Michelle B. Larson, PhD, as president. Dr. Larson will become the Adler's ninth leader and the first female president of America's First Planetarium. Her appointment begins January 1, 2013. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121212/DC27959) As president, Dr. Larson will oversee a 21(st )century space...
CHICAGO, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 25, 2012, take a mind-blowing tour of the Universe like no other at the Adler Planetarium. Welcome to the Universe is the next adventure departing from the Grainger Sky Theater, the most technologically advanced theater in the world. In Welcome to the Universe, audiences travel a billion light-years and back flying through space, orbiting the Moon, zooming into a canyon on Mars, and soaring through the cosmic web where a...
CHICAGO, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Adler Planetarium President Paul H. Knappenberger Jr., Ph.D., announced today that he would step down at the end of 2012 after 21 years of service. Knappenberger, who joined the Adler in 1991, has led the Museum through two major long-range plans that have significantly strengthened the planetarium. The most recent was initiated during the Adler's 75th anniversary in 2005. In that year, the institution announced a strategic plan to...
Visitors take off on a Deep Space Adventure for a one-of-a-kind immersive experience CHICAGO, April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, July 8, the Adler Planetarium will reveal a new, immersive space experience like no other in the world! Deep Space Adventure takes you aboard the observation deck of a futuristic starship where you will be surrounded by the larger-than-life phenomena of our dynamic Universe. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110425/DC88730 ) The...
The Adler Planetarium hopes to bring a Shuttle Orbiter to Chicago to inspire the next generation of explorers NASA to announce on April 12 where retiring shuttle orbiters permanently land CHICAGO, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Adler Planetarium released a rendering of the state-of-the-art glass pavilion and learning center it would build to house a Space Shuttle Orbiter. The Adler, one of 21 institutions across the country vying for a retired shuttle orbiter, hopes to...
Trip to Space Camp Up for Grabs for Winning Student, Teacher CHICAGO, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ComEd and the Adler Planetarium today announced the Third Annual Shoot for the Moon essay contest. This year, high school students are asked to write an essay about a teacher who has inspired them to "shoot for the moon" and succeed in science. The student with the winning essay will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Space Camp in Alabama, and - new this year - the winner's inspirational...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Former astronaut Jim Lovell, whose near-fatal trip to the moon was made famous in the movie "Apollo 13," has given a planetarium the handbook whose cardboard cover was used to save the space crew's lives. Lovell donated several items from his career to the Adler Planetarium to mark the institution's 75th anniversary. The gifts include pieces of memorabilia from the trip to the moon that turned into a race for survival after an oxygen tank exploded. The handbook's...
