Fernbank Science Center
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The Fernbank Science Center is a museum, classroom, and woodland complex located northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. The Fernbank Science Center is owned and operated by DeKalb County School System. The nearby Fernbank Museum of Natural History is a private non-profit organization that is separate from, but works closely with, the Science Center.
The Fernbank Science Center offers many public programs meant to entertain as well as educate (see edutainment), promote an understanding of science and technology, and communicate to everyone the harmony and order of the natural world. Fernbank contains hundreds of exhibits, including dinosaur skeletons, and an electron microscope lab. In addition, Fernbank is home to a planetarium with a 70-foot diameter projection dome.
The center houses an authentic Apollo spacecraft from the unmanned Apollo 6 Saturn V test, which was launched the same day as the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., who is entombed about three miles southwest of the Fernbank Science Center.
The Science Center is an educational institute and part of the public school system of DeKalb County. It provides programs for science education of local students. Certain parts of the science center are open to the public, including the 65 acre (263,000 m²) Fernbank Forest and the exhibit hall. The planetarium and Fernbank Observatory telescope are open for public shows on special occasions. The Science Center opened in December of 1967.
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