A space trip out West
“New Mexico has long drawn scientists and stargazers,” said Kari Bodnarchuk in The Boston Globe. By driving the newly designated New Mexico Space Trail, you can marvel at the fruits of their labors. After stopping in Albuquerque at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science for a “good overview of how ancient cultures used the stars,” visit some of the state’s pueblo ruins to test your new knowledge. On the Plains of San Agustin, you’ll find a visitors center near the 27 giant, dish-shaped antennas that together form perhaps the world’s most productive radio telescope. There’s also a museum at the White Sands Missile Range, where the first atomic bomb was tested. In Alamogordo, the New Mexico Museum of Space History is home to a flight suit worn by the first space chimp. “The mother ship of all things otherworldly,” however, is the International UFO Museum, located in Roswell. It’s an “information-rich emporium” of flying-saucer evidence and folklore.
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