Thursday, July 23 5:45PM
Intrepid
Pier 86 W 46th St and 12th Ave, New York, NY 10036
Join the Intrepid Museum for its seventh annual Summer Movie Series. Enjoy FREE feature films on the flight deck, under the stars!
This year, for the first time ever, each film will be introduced by a special guest, including Top Gun flight double and former astronaut Scott D. Altman, astrophysicist Dr. Steve B. Howell, author Jeffrey Kluger and more!
Bring your lawn chairs, picnic baskets and blankets. Guests are encouraged to bring their own food, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages.
This Thursday, Intrepid is screening of Close Encounters.
After an encounter with a UFO, a line worker feels drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Introduced by Dr. Steve B. Howell, a project scientist at NASA Ames Research Center.
Dr. Steve B. Howell is the project scientist for NASA’s Kepler and K2 missions, developed to search for habitable planets. The goal of the Kepler Space Telescope, launched in 2009, is to discover exoplanets—planets orbiting other stars. Kepler has discovered over 4,500 exoplanet candidates, nearly 2,000 confirmed exoplanets and several hundred exoplanets that are similar to Earth in size. The K2 mission will continue the search for exoplanets around the closest, brightest stars and provide the best scientific data sets ever obtained for many of the well-known stars and star clusters along the zodiac. Howell received his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Amsterdam and has worked in many aspects of astronomy, including instrument-building for ground and space-based telescopes, university education and public outreach.
For reservations and information visit: http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/