DESTINATION // IN SEARCH OF UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCES: FELS PLANETARIUM

Exploring space with celestial and human bodies

by Lauren Earline Leonard

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EXCERPT //

For those who, like me, fear advances in AI and hope ChatGPT goes quickly the way of cryptocurrency, the mundanity of our earth-space connections can be reassuring. Reclined and gazing upward at the 60-foot dome of the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute recently, I certainly found it so. Watching To Space and Back, one of three shows currently offered at the Institute, my friends and I witnessed the myriad ways in which space exploration impacts, improves, and extends our lives.

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