McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord NH

McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center

(Formally The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium)

McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is open Monday through Thursday from 10am-5pm, Friday from 10am-9pm and weekends from 10am-5pm.

This planetarium is dedicated to Christa McAuliffe who was a NH teacher and astronaut and Alan Shepard. They have many exhibits including the Planetarium Theater which seats 103 people and uses state-of-the-art technology to produce a video system of 110,000 stars, stellar and planetary objects.

Photo credit: Timothy Taber / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)