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meteorites and Science and Imagination displays. We also have a Smithsonian-curated exhibit on the Human Genome and science fiction displays. On Museum Day, we plan to offer science demos ...

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago during a time of great advances in science. Since then authors have tried to make sense of their world by imagining what the future will look like.

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Today, we call those dreams science fiction. Science fiction’s earliest inklings began in the mid-1600s, when Johannes Kepler and Francis Godwin wrote pioneering stories about voyages to the moon.