Your Mom Thinks This Weekend Will Be “Really Special and Fun”

Satellite of Love

Between October 1957 and October 1958, the Soviets and the United States embarked on an international game of orbital brinksmanship that, thanks to all the phallic rocketry involved, is almost comically easy to caricature as geopolitical male-posturing. Now that the Soviet Union no longer exists, and the U.S. space program has faded from the heights of its former glory, it’s a great time for a retrospective. The Linda Hall Library, at 5109 Cherry, highlights the formative year of these two national space programs with an exhibit called The Year the Space Age Began. This is clearly superior to other historical exhibits, such as the ones about Lewis and Clark that your mom likes to attend, in that it contains ROCKETS! The exhibit is open Tuesday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.