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Just Announced! Take A Seat In The Millennium Falcon This Year! This year’s attendees can get their photo taken inside the cockpit of the legendary Millennium Falcon from Star Wars! Plus, meet Darth Vader and his storm troopers from the 501st Legion in the exhibit hall. You can even sit in on the “Laws of…

Greg Nicotero is coming to Escape Velocity! We are just 42 days away from our annual science fiction convention, but we aren’t slowing down with adding great new programming content. This week we announcedthe man responsible for all the amazing makeup and special effects on The Walking Dead will be joining us at this year’s event. Mr. Nicotero…

We are 76 days away from another exciting Escape Velocity event! Are you ready to build a galactic empire? In the far reaches of deep space, the alien races of the Cosmos vie with each other for control of the galaxy. Alliances form and shift from moment to moment while cataclysmic battles send starships screaming…

Get Tickets Now! We are 92 days away from another exciting Escape Velocity event! The International Space Station came into service when its first component was launched into orbit 20 years ago in 1998. Boeing’s John Elbon and Lisa Thomas from Bigelow Aerospace will discuss their approaches to space habitats and how today’s mission planners are changing the way…

We are 106 days away from another exciting Escape Velocity event, but when it comes to reaching the minimum speed to break free from Earth’s gravitational pull, we have to first wish congratulations to Mr. Elon Musk! Yesterday’s liftoff and landing of your Falcon Heavy was like watching a scene from a science fiction movie! You…

We are 134 days away from another exciting Escape Velocity event. The theme of this year’s show, “Other Worlds,” takes us from Earth and explores how we might get to far away places. NASA will bring discussions about space science, exoplanets, and exobiology, while organizations like BAE explain the hardware needed to help us survive…

As we close another year, we reflect on our accomplishments in our effort to establish a museum dedicated to science fiction. Escape Velocity 2017 was a big success thanks to our team of dedicated volunteers, loyal staff, exhibitors, partners like NASA, and thousands of people who attended our second annual event. As Escape Velocity gains…

David Brin joins us for EV 2018! Award-winning science fiction author and Museum advisory board member, David Brin is coming to Escape Velocity! David’s book, Heaven’s Reach is perfectly on-theme for this year’s event: Other Worlds. David will be discussing Fractal World of his Uplift series (a fresh spin on the Dyson Sphere idea), a cluster of space habitats circling a white…

Greg Bear joins us for EV 2018! Award-winning science fiction author and Museum  advisory board member, Greg Bear is coming to Escape Velocity! Greg’s Eon series is perfectly on-theme for this year’s event: Other Worlds. Greg will be discussing Thistledown and the science behind building artificial worlds as well as signing books and participating on discussion panels. You can check out Greg’s…

Frankenstein: 200 years later  To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s seminal literary masterpiece next year, the Museum is building our own creature with the help of Tom Spina Designs and the graduate costume production program at UNC Chapel Hill. The team is creating an animated replica of the iconic monster with the capability of allowing people…