Category: Star Struck

Star Struck: Mission to Mars

Posted: May 11, 2018| Categories: Planetarium News, Star Struck

The Fairbanks Museum’s Bobby Farlice-Rubio talks to WCAX about the Mars InSight lander on this month’s Star Struck. It’ll arrive at Mars this November and is designed to investigate marsquakes. Also in this interview, Farlice-Rubio shows off some of the new augmented reality teaching tools that are used… Read More

Star Struck: Defunct space station falls from sky

Posted: April 9, 2018| Categories: Astronomy Camp, Planetarium News, Skywatch Almanac Astronomy, Space Science, Star Struck, StarGazing

In this Star Struck, Bobby Farlice-Rubio tells us all about the Chinese space station that was lost in space until it crashed into the Pacific Ocean Monday. Watch the video for the full interview. The experimental space lab Tiangong 1 was launched in 2011 and ended service in… Read More

Star Struck: Finding Earth 2.0

Posted: November 9, 2015| Categories: Planetarium News, Space Science, Star Struck

Every month, Fairbanks Museum educator Bobby Farlice-Rubio talks about the latest discoveries and adventures in space with the reporters on WCAX-TV. He’s just back from the 100 Year Starship Symposium: Finding Earth 2.0 and has this report: http://www.wcax.com/story/30414876/star-struck-finding-earth-20 … Read More