For over 100 years, women have contributed to technological advances in aviation and space.  Meet women who are today’s role models and hear about the historical women who have inspired them. 

Programs
Join Anousheh Ansari, space ambassador, as she tells the inspirational story that led her to become the first female private space traveler.
Moving Beyond Earth Gallery
11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Story time (for ages three to eight)
The Daring Miss Quimby, the uplifting story of a courageous woman who just had to put her head into the clouds.
The Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery
11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

All Day Activities (for ages three and up with adult companion)
• Make your own aviator’s license
• Create your own air meet banner and tickets
• Be an Aerospace Engineer: design, build, and test your own air- and spacecraft
• Dress up like pilot or astronaut

Tours (20 minutes each)
Women in the National Air and Space Museum

10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
First Floor
Explore the Early Flight, Golden Age of Flight and America by Air Galleries.  Hear about aviation pioneers Harriet Quimby and Amelia Earhart, as well as the first women to be commercial airline pilots.

11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Second Floor
Explore The Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery. Learn about early women aviators Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart. 

Want to explore on your own?  Stop by the Welcome Center and pick up a guide to women featured throughout the Museum (includes galleries not covered by the tours).

Meet other special guests:

• Learn about Black Boxes from Beverley Drake,  Senior Aviation Accident Investigator/Analyst
• Talk to the team leader from NASA who designs tools for the Hubble Space Telescope--Jill McGuire
• Find out about the organization Girls with Wings.  Founder, Lynda Meeks will be signing her book Penelope Pilot from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Meet representatives from Women in Aviation
• Encounter an aviatrix from the past—Matilde Moisant

This program is made possible by the generous support of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Anousheh Ansari, a private space "ambassador," was the first Iranian woman in space. An actor in the role of Amelia Earhart performs in front of a crowd during a family day at the National Air and Space Museum.

The most famous woman pilot of her era, Amelia Earhart was a promoter of women's careers in aviation and one of the founders of the Ninety-Nines, the first professional organization of women pilots. Her disappearance in 1937 during an around-the-world flight attempt sent shockwaves through the aviation community. Speculation about what happened to her is widespread nearly three quarters of a century later.

 How to attend

National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC

6th St. and Independence Ave SW. Washington, DC 20560
Throughout Location