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Olympic Museum opens at Reno-Tahoe International Airport

02/08/10
Today, February 8, 2010, is opening day for a new Olympic History Museum at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO). Designed to draw attention to efforts to bring the winter games to Reno in 2022 and to the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic […]

Souvenir Sunday at SFO Airport: gifts from Alcatraz

02/07/10
Happy Souvenir Sunday! If you’re stuck at the airport you can snooze, snack, eavesdrop and, of course, shop for souvenirs.  So each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com we feature fun, local, offbeat,  items you can find at airports for under $10. This week’s souvenir comes to us (again!!) from Ken Rogers.  He sent along this photo […]

Atlanta International Airport honors Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. year-round

01/19/10
Yesterday was the official holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But you can learn more about the Nobel Peace Prize winner anytime you pass through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). Since the mid-1980’s, the airport has had an exhibit titled Legacy of a Dream…Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The exhibit, on Concourse E, […]

Meeting Aviation Pioneer Jean Batten in Rotorua, New Zealand

10/20/09
Earlier this week, my short flight from New Zealand’s Rotorua Regional Airport to Auckland was canceled, so I ended up stuck at that tiny airport for a while. Good thing.  The delay gave me a chance to look around.  In addition to finding more than a half-dozen giant statues, I was able to learn a […]

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing with Nixon and the astronauts

07/14/09
July 20th is the 40th anniversary of the moon landing and there will be loads of celebrations and commemorations around the country.  You can read about many of the events on the NASA Web site, but two events of special note are the Summer Moon Festival in Wapakoneta, Ohio (Neil Armstrong’s home town) and Splashdown […]

Earth to the Universe via Chicago O’Hare Airport

05/21/09
(JUPITER  –  Photo: Travis Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), Chad Trujillo and the Gemini Altair Team, NOAO / AURA / NSF.) This is the International Year of Astronomy, recognizing the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope to study the heavens. So it’s appropriate that Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and the Alder Planetarium have teamed […]

Tiny art at Madison’s Dane County Airport

04/21/09
Starting this Friday, April 24th, the charming Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) in Madison, Wisconsin will begin hosting an exhibition about some tiny things, like this fruit fly embryo. “Tiny: Art From Microscopes at UW-Madison” runs through Dec. 31, 2009 and features about 40 images of  cells, molecules and nanoscale structures generated in the course […]
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