Space Discovery Center reopensKiara Padilla, center, flies a drone as her mother Kelly Padilla, left, watches at the Space Foundation Discovery Center grand reopening Saturday in Colorado Springs. The Discovery Center reopened after undergoing a $3.5 million expansion and renovation. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette)
Space Discovery Center reopensKiara Padilla, center, flies a drone as her mother Kelly Padilla, left, watches at the Space Foundation Discovery Center grand reopening Saturday in Colorado Springs. The Discovery Center reopened after undergoing a $3.5 million expansion and renovation. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette)Elliott Fink, left, and a Jawa, a character from “Star Wars,” play in an interactive sandbox at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center grand reopening. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)People explore the newly renovated Space Foundation’s Discovery Center at a grand reopening on Saturday. The Discovery Center underwent a $3.5 million renovation and expansion which added 3,000 square feet of exhibit space, eight new exhibits and two new labs. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)From left, Sarah Cabiao, her son Alex and husband Magno are reflected in a James Webb Telescope mirror prototype as they look at the Baker-Nunn Telescope at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center grand reopening. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)Addison Tomdale, left, looks at seeds held by her sister Ellie at the new hydroponics exhibit at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center grand reopening on Saturday. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)A group interacts with an exhibit about light at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center grand reopening on Saturday. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)A mural featuring space pioneers was installed in the “Drone Zone” at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)A visitor wearing alien antennae reads information about climate change at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)A group drives rovers in the renovated Lockheed Martin Mars Robotics Laboratory at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)Moments from the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center grand reopening on Saturday. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)Moments from the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center grand reopening on Saturday. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)Moments from the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center grand reopening. (Parker Seibold, the gazette)
