International Spaceflight Museum

The venerable Second Life Insider blog has covered the ISM's upcoming sponsorship auctions on Ebay. Check it out.

On August 12, Paisley Beebe interviewed me on her weekly talk show 'Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe'. You can watch it on the SLCN.TV website here.

The International Spaceflight Museum (ISM) in Second Life is pleased to announce the Grand Opening of our second 16-acre sim, known as Spaceport Bravo. To celebrate the Grand Opening, the ISM will host a week long celebration beginning on May 5th 2007 starting with the official opening, and a celebration of the 46th anniversary of Alan Shepherd's historic flight into space aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft. This week-long celebration will include the unveiling of many new exhibits, lectures, demonstrations, rocket launches and dancing.

I was at an SL trade fair the other day and got into a conversation with a nice fellow there. For some reason, I ended up telling him that I'm with the International Spaceflight Museum (ISM).

His reply was something like, "Oh. Hey, are you involved with that NASA build on Spaceport Alpha?"

Aaaaaargh!

There is no NASA build on Spaceport Alpha. That's where the ISM is located, and the ISM is not NASA.

This isn't the first time someone thought the ISM was NASA. I guess when people see rockets and such, they just automatically assume NASA is involved.

Edumuve.com has posted a list of places of interest to educators in Second Life. The International Spaceflight Museum was included.

The conference "Museums and the Web 2007" will take place from April 11-14 in San Francisco. One of the papers is titled "A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums" and it has a nice survey of the museums in Second Life, including the International Spaceflight Museum.

You can read the paper at the conference website.

The ISM was host to a special presentation today titled "Virtual BLAST". It was given by Matt Truch (SL: Half Moo), a physics graduate student from Brown University who is on the BLAST team.