Celebrate Space Shuttle Discovery's newest mission at the National Air and Space Museum-to inspire and educate.

  • See the shuttle in its new home in the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
  • Learn about some of the shuttle's most significant missions
  • Meet astronauts Pam Melroy, Stephen Bowen and Tom Jones

Activities Include:

  • Hands-on demonstrations of Space Shuttle Lego kits.
  • Show-and-tell demonstrations of amateur radio satellites
  • Simulated space shuttle landings
  • Story-time
  • Design your own space shuttle, mission patch, and astronaut paper doll
Space Day is made possible by the generous support of Lockheed Martin Corporation

Children enjoy seeing and touching a spacesuit at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.

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