Fleet Theater Gives Look at Uranus

San Diegans will have a chance to see live coverage at the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater today as the Voyager 2 spacecraft travels past the planet Uranus.

Coverage begins at 9:45 a.m. in the museum’s lecture hall.

The museum will receive up-to-the minute information--including hourly science reports and photographs from Voyager--from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which is running the Voyager 2 expedition.

There will also be an hourlong wrap-up of the day’s activities starting at 5 p.m. Mary Hettinger, the public information officer for the museum, said the coverage will be continuous when there are no regularly planned activities in the lecture hall. Interested persons should contact the museum for schedule information, Hettinger said.

Photographs from Voyager will be shown on a six-foot television screen. JPL officials said photographs taken during Voyager’s closest passage of the distant planet will probably be released Saturday.

The museum is open every day from 9:45 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. Live coverage of the mission will continue until Tuesday. There is no admission charge.