STS and HASTS friends, If you are hanging around MIT this weekend, there is a rare opportunity to witness a livestream from the International Space Station happening this Sunday morning. The featured project (HUMANS) is the hard work of many MIT students. Debbie Douglas
SPECIAL PROGRAM: Voices from Space: A Historic ISS Livestream with HUMANS Sunday, May 28, 2023 – 10:00-10:20 AM (Museum opens early at 9:30 am) Friends, This Sunday from 10-10:20 am, the MIT Museum will host a livestream directly from the International Space Station. The museum will open early at 9:30 am that day so you can have time to be seated in front of our giant screen in the Lee Family Exchange. The astronauts aboard the ISS will be featuring a super cool MIT student project called HUMANS<https://humans.mit.edu/> (Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechology in Space) that created a 6-inch silicon wafer etched with the words and sound recordings of 1234 individuals from around the world. Here at the museum, the HUMANS team will be talking directly with the astronauts. That special wafer was launched<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osqZvV-RdCE> into space last week aboard the Axiom-2<https://www.axiomspace.com/> mission and has now safely arrived<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwWeBT5kS1M> (along with the astronauts!). Join the HUMANS crew to listen in to the live exchange with the AX-2 astronauts. Following the livestream, you will have a chance to view the “back up” wafer and meet the MIT students and staff who conceived of this modern take on NASA’s famous “Golden Record<https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/>”. The program is free with museum admission. Please see our website for more details see our website here: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/voices-from-space-a-historic-iss-livestream-with-humans. Look forward to seeing you on Sunday! Debbie Douglas Please share this announcement! Deborah G. Douglas, PhD • Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology, MIT Museum; Research Associate, Program in Science, Technology, and Society • Room E28-320B • 314 Main Street • Gambrill Center • Cambridge, MA 02142 • ddoug...@mit.edu<mailto:ddoug...@mit.edu> • 617-253-1766 telephone • 617-253-8994 facsimile • http://mitmuseum.mit.edu • she/her/hers
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