In talks he gave, Ray Bradbury on occasion would discuss "The Great Shout of the Universe", a script he had written in 1981 for a proposed planetarium show at the the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The Smithsonian ended up rejecting the script because it felt it wasn't always scientifically accurate. Ray rightly maintained that his job as the writer of that script was to inspire a sense of awe and wonder, not to educate. (As Ray put it, he wanted to preach, not teach!) A repurposed version of the script ended up being used by the California Museum of Science and Industry (now known, I believe, as the California Science Center) for a presentation of its own. To read about that script and its fate at the Smithsonian, there is a fine article, written by David Romanowski, which appears on the website of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. To read that article, just click on the link below:

https://airandspace.si.edu/sto...ost-planetarium-show

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