NASA highlights past and the Energizer bunnies of space
exploration, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
The golf-cart sized robotic vehicles have been roaming the
Martian landscape for more than four years. wondered what one
looks like close up…not all the way on Mars? Head to the NASA
exhibit at the EAA AirVenture Museum where visitors can check
out a life-size model of the rovers. This year NASA has displays
in the museum and a traveling exhibit closer to the flightline
near the homebuilts and Exhibit Hangar E. have turned our usual
exhibit building over to another group," said Jim Hull, NASA
exhibits and artifact manager. (That building is now home to the
Affordable Flying Center.) "We have so many events and displays
to celebrate NASA’s 50th anniversary spread across the country
that we couldn’t use that space. Also some of the vintage
artifacts we have at Oshkosh this summer need the kind of
climate control the museum provides, not the occasional extreme
heat of a hangar that’s not air-c