May 5, 2004 Washington DC
The Traveling Space Museum had the honor of setting up its Odyssey II Spacelab simulation as part of Space Day 2004 celebration at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s new museum called the "Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center." Located at Washington Dulles International Airport, the Udvar-Hazy Center is situated on 176.5 acres and is a whooping 760,057-square-foot building --large enough to house an SR-71, the Concorde and the Space Shuttle Enterprise all in separate wings!
The 13-foot long full scale SpaceLab module was a big hit with hundreds of school children bused in from all across the nation courtesy of the Space Day Foundation who sponsored the event. While some students perfected use of the module’s robotic video microscope others imitated astronauts using exercise equipment, radios and other real hardware they found onboard the simulator. (For More Information on Odyssey II Click Space Stations/Odyssey)
