The back walls slide to reveal an open-air lab, with a telescope mount at its center. Locals came to envy Klebe’s creation before he left for Nebraska, one of 14 states that on Monday will be in the solar eclipse’s “path of totality.” He will be in the 26-foot 1976 GMC RV that he turned into MESO. I’ve gotta get this ready for the eclipse.”Īnd there it was last week in Colorado Springs, ready for the celestial event of a lifetime. “That’s when I (thought), ‘OK, I’ve gotta devote my time to getting this ready. The idea never took at the museum, said Klebe, who was laid off in January after 14 years. And it could reach remote schools out of a museum’s reach, students who don’t have the opportunity for such a field trip. Students could experiment in a mobile observatory over the span of days. “I think it’s gonna be a game-changer,” said Klebe, a former Colorado College professor and longtime space educator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.įor years he pushed the idea at the museum: A traveling classroom, a laboratory on wheels, would take pressure off exhibits that field-tripping school kids never had time to really understand. Most important, the Mobile Earth and Space Observatory, or MESO, can inspire a new generation of astronomy enthusiasts. It won’t fly but is nonetheless big and, in a way, can explore the galaxy.
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“I always wanted to look cool in a spaceship,” said Dimitri Klebe, the scientist who 40 years after the movie grins about his latest project. | “Star Wars” arrived in theaters to inspire a budding scientist.
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