Soar Together at Air and Space Family Activities

An illustrated image showing the Earth shushing satellites, with the text "Story Time: Shhh, Satellites."

For Ages: 4 and Up

In this original story, satellites are making lots of noise orbiting the Earth while its trying to sleep.

A craft imagining a satellite, made out of pink, purple, and gold paper. The text on the page reads: "Flutter Flyer, My Satellite, tracks changing tree cover & butterfly populations, sensor, receiving antenna, transmitter antenna, housing, camera, solar array, data center."

For Ages: 5 and up

Create your own satellite.

A paper chain made of pink and green loops, representing binary code. It sits draped over a table.

For Ages: 9 and up

Discover how different telescopes help scientists see different things.

A young man with light brown skin and curly hair wearing a red polo talks to a family with adults and children of all ages, all looking at objects on a cart--except for one young boy who looks up reverently at the Explainer.

Event

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, and Presented Online

In Person: January 10, 2026 | Virtual: Launches January 9, 2026

A paper chain made of pink and green loops, representing binary code. It sits draped over a table.

A woman smiles and stares out of a decorated coffee can.

A black banner with a red paper airplane made to look like a 1920s airplane.

A photograph of the black of a child modeling brown cardboard flapping wings.

A paper towel role made into a model airplane. The nose cone is decorated with the face of a chicken, drawn in markers.

A shield made of cardboard and paper with space-inspired shapes on it. It was made by a child.

Two small model plans made out of paper and paper towel or toilet paper rolls, decorated with markers.

Stars and cloud like formations in space.

A black field filled with small paper airplanes made out of cardboard and a Q-tip.

Side view of agricultural plane painted like an orange and white anthropomorphic animated plane, with eyeballs in the cockpit. It sits below a large grey aircraft

A lineup of the solar system planets from left to right: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, against a black background with a partial green arc behind Earth.

An illustration of constellations in the blue night's sky.

The pitch black night is illuminated by a bright white-hot rocket engine plume, which illuminates clouds of smoke surrounding the launch pad.

An illustration depicts Europe’s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite, which looks like a stately silver-colored rocket plane. GOCE ran out of fuel and re-entered the atmosphere in 2013. Refueling facilities could allow space agencies to extend the operational lives of their science satellites.

Digital illustration of a red-covered family scrapbook, which is open and showing two pages of the scrapbook. Taped into the scrapbook are three photos with various groupings of people in the photos. There is also some writing around the photos. The scrapbook is laying on a table, which has photos, glue, scissors, a cup of coffee and other office materials.

Wall Slide

Photo of two small drones flying over the capital city of Reno, Nevada, USA. Both drones look like they are either coming in for a landing or are just taking off. Each drone has 5 arms extending out from a central point, and each arm has an upward facing propeller at the end. One drone has two legs that look like landing gear, pointing down.

On the left side of the image, a crisp white spacesuit and helmet contrasts with the black background.

A black-and-white image of a total solar eclipse shows the sun's bright corona peaking out from the edges of the moon.

Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago"

The International Space Station and the Docked Space Shuttle Endeavour

Katherine Stinson (left) and Marjorie C. Stinson (right) posed standing in front of Katherine's Wright Model B, circa 1913

Blanche Stuart Scott

A painting of the Moon on a blue background.

A shining halo appears around where the Sun would be in this photo of a solar eclipse.

United Airlines flight attendant assisting passengers wearing the United Airlines flight attendant cap (1946)

Several seated humans, pictured from their knees out, point to a computer screen.

An illustration in an orbital workshop, with a cutaway showing astronauts working inside.

Artist concept of an asteroid

A woman holds up an orange spacesuit

Saturn V F1 Liquid Fuel Rocket Engine

A fictional spaceship composed of a large central disk and three cylinders that run parallel.

black and white photo of Amelia Earhart in front of an aircraft.

The sky is pitch black, but a series of mounted iights illuminate a patch of hilly, grey, lunar terrain where astronauts wearing bulky white spacesuits are at work.

A kid tries on a shiny spacesuit.

Pan Am Boeing 707

Artists' concept of James Webb Telescope depicted against the backdrop of space.

A man holds two young children who look at a surface screen.

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Cicular, double-tiered, with many projecting spires coming out around the circumference and tubes of different sizes, along with rods, some curved, projecting from top.

Rita Rapp displays the range of food containers used on the Apollo 16 mission

A family in spacesuits stands in the foreground of an alien planet, with rovers and biomes on it. Planets appear in the background.

Flight deck of USS Enterprise Aircraft Carrier Model

An artist’s impression of the extremely hot exoplanet Kepler-10b.

A woman leans over a painting of an astronaut conserving it.

Amelia Earhart Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft

A photo collage showing a hurricane, a seal, a boat, fish, weather, and a cockpit of a plane.

Cernan's Apollo 17 Gloves

A young person stands on a stepladder and looks through a large telescope at a dark blue-green night sky.

Women in Aviation and Space Family Day

Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Iwrin and David Scott deployed the first lunar roving vehicle on the Moon in 1971.

A glowing yellow orb.

A composite image showcasing different careers.

Bell X-1

Close-up "selfie" image of the Perseverance rover.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Taken from below, this photograph captures four Blue Angel planes flying in formation above the photographer. "U.S. Navy" is visible beneath each wing.

Twenty-two hot air balloons fly at different altitudes against a bright blue sky.

Tuskegee Navigation Cadets

Soar Together at Air and Space is made possible by the generous support of Northrop Grumman Foundation.