Explorers Festival Film Submissions
The Explorers Festival will take place in Húsavík from November 6 to 10, 2024. This is the 10th edition of the festival and the third year that we have a Film Festival as part...
Author: Orly Orlyson
Expedition News celebrates its 30th anniversary
The latest issue of Expedition News, published by Blumenfeld & Associates, celebrates its 30th anniversary with stories of remarkable expeditions and achievements: For full stories and more inspiring expeditions, read the latest issue of...
10th Explorers Festival
The Explorers Festival in Húsavík, Iceland, celebrates its 10th edition from November 6-10, 2024, with the theme EARTHRISE, honoring the impact of space exploration on Earth. Highlights include the GeoSpace student training program, a...
Exploration Icons Honored at the 9th Leif Erikson Awards
In a celestial celebration of human ingenuity and exploration, the 9th Leif Erikson Awards have crowned their laureates, underscoring remarkable contributions to space exploration and scientific achievement. Húsavík’s Exploration Museum annually bestows these accolades...
Amelia Rose Earhart joins board of The Exploration Museum
Aviatrix, adventurer, around the world pilot and a great friend of the Exploration Museum, Amelia Rose Earhart, has joined the board of the Exploration Museum. She joins the board of our new US based...
2015 Leif Erikson Exploration Awards
American Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Australian around the world sailor Jessica Watson and British exploration historian Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones have been awarded the Leif Erikson Exploration Awards by The Exploration Museum. The museum...
Apollo astronauts revisit training area in Iceland and explore a new lava flow
Fifty years ago this month, a group of Apollo astronauts arrived in Iceland for a week of geology training. A second field trip was made in 1967. For two weeks in July 2015, astronauts...
A Trip to the Moon and the Role of Iceland in Apollo
A talk by Moonwalker and Geologist Harrison Schmitt at Reykjavík University – July 9, 2015 at 5.00 pm. Hosted by The Exploration Museum. The exposure of Apollo Astronauts to the geology of Iceland contributed...
Neil Armstrong on the North Pole
On April 6, 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mt. Everest, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, Steve Fossett, the first to fly a balloon around the world, Patrick...
Apollo 8: First broadcast from the Moon
The Apollo 8 mission in December 1968 was a bright spot at the end of an otherwise bleak year in American history. After riots and the assassinations of MLK and RFK, people watched in awe...
