In 1998 , a Coelophysis skull from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was taken into space on the Space Shuttle Endeavour . Coelophysis was the second dinosaur in space . Although Maiasaura had been taken into space three years earlier , a Coelophysis skull from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-89 when it left the atmosphere on January 22 , 1998 .