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Ares Reaches 1 Million at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Helping visitors explore the Ares exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Image Credit: NASA

The Ares Projects integration team and Ares Projects managers and engineers met with more than 1 million people at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on June 25-29 and July 2-6. The festival is a NASA 50th Anniversary event and featured the Ares exhibit and NASA's exploration plans. The NASA presence included living presentations, hands-on activities, exhibits, and more from across the agency. Ares team members discussed the project, from schedule to details of the vehicle architecture, and answered questions from the general public on all aspects of the Ares mission. Through these face-to-face interactions with hundreds of thousands of the festivals’ attendees, the Ares team's dedicated outreach efforts are increasing public knowledge of the nation's space program.

For more information about the event, as well as image and video galleries taken during the festival, check out the NASA Folklife Festival web pages.

The Ares Projects Office is on the move! From speaking to school-age kids to exhibiting at your local state fair, the Ares Projects Office is committed to sharing information about NASA's future missions and America's new launch vehicles, Ares I and V.

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"The next steps in returning to the moon and moving onward to Mars, the near-Earth asteroids, and beyond, are crucial in deciding the course of future space exploration. We must understand that these steps are incremental, cumulative, and incredibly powerful in their ultimate effect."
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Recent Ares Outreach Activities
The Ares Projects Office recently exhibited at the 2008 National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo.


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Ares Exhibits
The Ares exhibits program includes models, displays and multimedia that will enhance your event. Here you can learn more about Ares and other NASA exhibits and how to schedule them for your event.
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