posted 10-16-2014 04:16 PM               

Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity

Open January 8, 2015 through June 2015

Extra-vehicular activity, or EVA — working outside a spacecraft — changed the nature of human spaceflight. It made possible walking on the Moon, servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, and building the International Space Station. It remains crucial to our ongoing presence in space.

EVA requires a wearable spacecraft — the spacesuit — and specialized tools for astronauts to survive in the hazardous environment of space. Since the first space walks of Aleksei Leonov and Edward White in 1965, more than 200 astronauts and cosmonauts have amassed over 1,000 hours of EVA experience.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of those first two ventures outside the spacecraft, this exhibition will present art, photography, artifacts, and personal accounts that relate the continuing story of EVA.

posted 01-07-2015 02:45 PM               

Outside the Spacecraft: Exhibit celebrates 50 years of astronaut spacewalks

The Smithsonian is inviting the public to take a stroll through half a century of spacewalks.

In its new exhibition, "Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity," the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of the first two human ventures into open space. Opening Thursday (Jan. 8), the six-month exhibit presents art, photography, artifacts and personal accounts that relate the continuing story of extravehicular activity or EVA — or as it is colloquially known, spacewalking.

"'Outside the Spacecraft' is the museum's opportunity to celebrate 50 years of people doing the most amazing thing I can think of and that is learning how to live and work in space using their own 'personal spacecraft' and special tools," Jennifer Levasseur, the curator of the exhibit, told collectSPACE. "Our collection is so strong in EVA-related items that this is the perfect opportunity for us to show people some unique objects and connect them to things like art, photography, and the work we do to preserve EVA history."

posted 01-07-2015 02:47 PM               

Behind the Exhibition: "Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of EVA"

Get a look behind the scenes as we installed "Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-vehicular Activity," a new exhibition on view at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC Jan. 8 through June 8, 2015.

posted 01-08-2015 09:17 AM               

I would like to have seen a full shuttle/ISS suit displayed and the glove tree to be better marked so you could see whose glove is whose without walking all around it.

The event last night was well attended with former astronauts Lopez-Alegria, Sullivan, Grunsfeld, Bolden, and Jones making the rounds.

posted 01-08-2015 09:32 AM               

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Originally posted by BMckay:
...and the glove tree to be better marked so you could see whose glove is whose without walking all around it.

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