This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Saturday, January 27, 2024. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Macintosh SE Personal Computer – 1987 40 years ago, Apple presented the Macintosh personal computer to the world. The Mac introduced the revolutionary graphic user interface (GUI), allowing users to click on icons for the programs they wanted to run instead of typing out names of programs on command lines. With the GUI, built-in-screen, and… Continue reading
Model Submarine – Nautilus SSN 571 70 years ago in January 1954, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine was launched. Named after Captain Nemo’s submarine from the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the Nautilus was a large vessel at 323 feet long with a crew of 104. However, her pressurized-water nuclear reactor… Continue reading
The Saint Louis Science Center has been recognized as one of the top science centers and free museums in the United States of America! We’re honored that Newsweek magazine has nominated our institution for their Readers’ Choice Award in the Best Free Museum category. We hope that you will vote for us! Voting has… Continue reading
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Saturday, January 13, 2024. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Glenn Curtiss Commemorative Stamps – 1980 This set of postmarked stamps commemorative the aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, one of the founders of the U.S. aircraft industry. Although he may be most known for developing the JN-4 “Jenny” two-seat training aircraft during World War I, Curtiss also created the world’s first successful flying boat. A flying… Continue reading
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Saturday, January 6, 2024. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Iron Lung – ca. 1940 On this day in 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, better known as the March of Dimes. The organization was founded to combat polio, an infectious disease that affects nerves in the spinal cord or brain stem. In its most severe form, polio can… Continue reading
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Saturday, December 30, 2023. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
