SOARING EXHIBIT IN LANCASTER MUSEUM/GALLERY CHOCK FULL OF DISPLAYS, ACTIVITIES MARKING AVIATION ANNIVERSARY.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - The 100th anniversary of the first manned flight in a powered airplane will be celebrated today with activities and displays at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery. Activities marking the Wright brothers' Dec. 17, 1903, flight will include demonstrations by Captain Bob's Rockets and Robots at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.; a lecture on brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright at 6 p.m. by Bob Redman; and star-gazing courtesy of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Astronomy club from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Visitors also will see an 8-foot model of the Wright Flyer The Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I and occasionally Kitty Hawk) was the first powered aircraft designed and built by the Wright brothers. , a hands-on Mars Exploration Rover, space suits and models, aerial photography This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. by the late Judson P. Brohmer, a space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. model, historical displays on early aviation in the Antelope Valley and a P-38 diorama. The Antelope Valley Astronomy Club will have daylight astronomy information and lunar rocks on display. Artist Randy Barnicki will demonstrate celestial ce·les·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to the sky or the heavens: Planets are celestial bodies. 2. Of or relating to heaven; divine: celestial beings. 3. painting. There will be a book signing by the test-pilot authors of ``Breaking Free.'' The museum's current exhibition, ``Cosmic Adventures - Space, Science and Technology,'' will continue until Jan. 11. The exhibit was made possible by grants from the Boeing Co. and the Boeing Employees Community Fund. The museum-art gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at 44801 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . Admission is free. For more information call (661) 723-6250. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Piute Middle School eighth-graders look at displays in the ``Cosmic Adventures - Space, Science and Technology'' show at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery. The trip was a reward for academic effort. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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