For kids who love space, there's no better place to go than the National Youth Space Center. This facility specializing in space science is one step closer to the dream of becoming an astronaut. There are multimedia cinemas, astronaut training facilities, weightlessness adaptation equipment, spacecraft piloting simulators, and other unique space experience programs.
Entering the museum will make you feel like you've arrived on another planet. The mysterious story of the 13.8 billion-year-old universe unfolds. You and your child can pilot a spaceship and feel the gravity of the moon. The experience of weightlessness will leave an unforgettable impression on your child.
Future astronauts, spread your imagination's wings to the fullest and start your space journey full of dreams and hopes right here.
- Activity Center
The center is composed of the Experience Activity Center, Living Center, and Deokheung Observatory.
The Experience Activity Center is equipped with space and equipment suitable for space science-themed experiential programs. On the first floor of the center, there are four experimental rooms and an S.O.S. room, and on the second floor, there is a seminar room and a multimedia movie theater where large-scale experiential activities can be held. The third and fourth floors are equipped for astronaut training.
- Planetarium
The planetarium realistically shows the movement of celestial bodies as the seasons and time change on a 15-meter diameter hemispherical screen.
You can enjoy the rotation and rotation of celestial bodies, dynamical phenomena on the surface of planets, etc. while listening to the commentary of the leaders who developed the educational contents. The Sky Observatory is an observatory built for basic observation by youth and is equipped with reflecting and refracting telescopes.
Here, young people will experience a different view of the heavens than with the naked eye.
- Radio Telescope
The radio interferometer system consists of three 1.8-meter diameter radio telescopes.
Unlike optical telescopes, radio telescopes can be used for daytime observing and can be used in cloudy weather, providing more opportunities for youth to observe. Youth can experience the process of detecting radio waves from celestial objects by operating the radio telescope themselves, and they can also draw a map of radio waves in the sky.
- Deokheung Observatory
Deokheung Observatory consists of an astronomical observatory with a 1-meter remote-controlled telescope, a seminar room, an observation control room, and an educational laboratory with a photometric and spectroscopic analysis room.
At Deokheung Observatory, you can directly participate in astronomical research observations using a 1-meter remote-controlled telescope, and experience the process of deriving various physical quantities from astronomical images obtained with research telescopes through data processing training and practice.
- Day-time experience (※The experience time may vary depending on the number of people applying for the same day experience.)
1. Space Tour: S.O.S (Science On a Sphere), single-seater flight control experience, 4D simulator (about 1 hour)
2. Cosmos Tour: Planetarium experience (about 1 hour)