copyright 2009, The Washington Post 'Moving Beyond Earth,' Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Two instruments used to repair the Hubble Space Telescope are the big draw in the National Air and Space Museum's 'Moving Beyond Earth' gallery, which opened last week. Together, they've traveled 2 billion miles in space. 'Moving Beyond Earth,' which won't be completed for two years, also includes the suit that Dennis Tito, the first tourist in space, wore for his eight-day orbit in 2001. A fun touch-screen kiosk allows visitors to equip a new module for the international space station, making such decisions as whether they can fit and afford a shower in the station's living quarters or whether the astronauts will have to make do with a toilet and sponge bath. That plus five other interactive displays are designed to catch the attention of young visitors. 'When a young person walks into a gallery, the first thing they look for is, `Where is the screen?' Then, without any instructions, they touch it and start hitting things until they get what they want,' says the museum's director, Gen. J.R. 'Jack' Dailey. The Air and Space Museum, at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue in Washington, is open daily 10 to 7:30. For information: 202-633-1000, www.nasm.si.edu. 'Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes' (AK Peters, $35) Sure, this book came out back in March, but is it really ever too late to talk about crocheting hyperbolic planes? Didn't think so. Daina Taimina is a Latvian mathematics professor at Cornell University who, in 1997, helped geometrists solve the problem of how to model hyperbolic space ... with her crochet hook. A hyperbolic plane is a surface with 'constant negative curvature' -- picture a ruffle curling into itself over and over. Taimina's brightly-colored yarn models look like exotic flowers. She includes instructions for the simple crochet pattern, but the 149-page text is a math book at heart and spends much more space on the intricacies of hyperbolic geometry. 