By Aileen Jacobson CENTERPORT, N.Y. — Standing behind the complex instrument panel that controls the gleaming Konica Minolta GeminiStar III projection system, Lorraine Vernola looks as though she could easily launch a spaceship, what with all the buttons, switches, computer screens and flashing lights in front of her. And in a sense, she can, at...Read More

This booklet, prepared for the grand opening of the newly renovated, technologically advanced Planetarium, tells the history of the facility, details its makeover, technology and new programs, and thanks its sponsors and supporters.Read More

This report, Progress Toward a Brighter Future, details the significant advances the institution has achieved in the past few years — in expense-reduction, finances, fund-raising, expanded programming, and increased public and media visibility. The report also acknowledges the Museum's donors and friends.Read More

Visitors to the Vanderbilt Planetarium's William and Mollie Rogers Theater will see not only new shows produced by planetariums in Britain, China and the United States, but also extraordinary NASA imagery recorded by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and other satellites. The ultra-high-definition video can take the audience on jaw-dropping journeys to the outer reaches of...Read More