Fri., Aug. 7

District office

State. Sen. Eric Schneiderman will be hosting an open house for his new community district office at 5030 Broadway, Suite 704 (Between W. 213th & W. 214th Streets), from 5 to 8 p.m.

For more information or to RSVP, call 212-544-0173.

Star show

The Hudson River Museum, located at 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, will present “Beyond the Dome: ‘Constellation’ Takes Wing” at 7 p.m., in the planetarium.

The show focuses on Ares 1, a new NASA rocket slated to take the place of the Space Shuttle. Ares first launches in August, and is destined to go to the Moon, Mars, and eventually other parts of the solar system. The show will explore how it, and other rockets in the Constellation Program, work.

The presentation is free. For more information, call 914- 963-4550.

This is part of the August 6, 2009 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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