Soar Together at Air and Space is a monthly family-focused program from the National Air and Space Museum. By engaging in these activities and experiences, families can imagine their own futures by sharing in the stories of innovators and explorers from diverse backgrounds who challenged conventions and changed the world. Each month we will focus on a different theme. 

Soar Together family days take place both in person and online. In addition to events at our Museum in DC or Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, Soar Together activities are available online for families to participate in, no matter where they live. Activities include scavenger hunts, videos, and hands-on demonstrations learners of all ages can do at home.

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New: Rocket Blasts and Star Bursts

What is an explosion, and why are they important for air and space?

You might know about the quick, sudden burst of a rocket engine, but we're going to discover other exciting explosions featured in aerospace. Join us for a fun family day as we explore together!

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Upcoming Events

Soar Together Family Activities: Cultural Astronomy Presented Online Virtual: Launches January 10, 2024

Activities To Be Enjoyed Anytime

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

Rocket Blasts and Star Bursts

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.

Looking Down, What Do You See?

The cover of the "First Woman" comic book featuring a young brown-skinned woman in a spacesuit looking upwards at a large Moon, holding her helmet in her hands. There is purple and black space with the distant Sun in the background. The text con the cover reads "First Woman: NASA's Promise for Humanity. Issue No. 1. Dream to Reality." NASA's logo is on the cover.

Air and Space in Comics

A small lion looks out from cockpit while sittting with pilot inside the open cockpit of an airplane

Animals in Air and Space

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.

Favorites '24

Wall Slide

Unexpected Discoveries

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.

Future of Transportation

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

Spacesuits

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

Get Ready for the Solar Eclipse

Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago"

Firsts in Flight

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is docked onto the International Space Station above Earth.

Importance of Teamwork

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

Flying in the Family

Blanche Stuart Scott

What is a biplane?

A painting of the Moon on a blue background.

Art Inspired by Space

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

Exploring Eclipses

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

Food on the Fly

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

Favorites '23

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

Space Stations

Artist concept of an asteroid

Defending Earth

A woman holds up an orange spacesuit

Curious Careers in Air and Space

A huge engine hangs from the ceiling in front of a mirror, giving the effect of multiple engines. It is lit from below giving a warm glow of a rocket about to blast off.

All About Rockets

Red white and blue biplane with Pepsi-Cola logo on the back

Messages in the Sky

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

From Science Fiction to Everyday Life

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

From Autogiros to Helicopters

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

Moon Missions Past and Future

A kid tries on a shiny spacesuit.

Imagine Your Future

Pan Am Boeing 707

Connections by Air

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

Expanding Our View of the Universe

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

Favorites '22

A black spy plane stands in an all black air hanger, lit from the light from above. The curvy form of the plane--bulging at two engines on either wing and curving up toward the cockpit--give the sense of an almost science fiction aircraft (although it's very real).

Spies in the Skies

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.

UFOs: Fact or Fiction?

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

Crafty and Creative Career Connections

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

Creating Imaginary Worlds

Flight deck of USS Enterprise Aircraft Carrier Model

Floating Airfields

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

What's Beyond Our Solar System

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

Objects Tell Stories

Amelia Earhart Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft

Finding Our Wings

A photo collage showing a hurricane, a seal, a boat, fish, a lightning strike above a desert, and a cockpit of a plane.

NOAA in Your Life

Pair of lunar gloves used on Apollo 17 mission. A special gray fabric makes up most of the gloves with the blue fingertips made from silicon rubber.

Design Challenge

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

Astronomy Anywhere

Women in Aviation and Space Family Day

Favorites '21

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

Apollo 15

A glowing yellow orb.

Solstice

A composite image showcasing different careers.

Careers '21

Human Spaceflight

Bell X-1

High Speed Flight

Close-up image of the Perseverance rover taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars.

Exploring Other Worlds

2001: A Space Odyssey

Science Fiction

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

Naval Aviation

A large capsule with multiple satellite dishes orbits the Earth.

International Space Station

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

Balloons

Tuskegee Navigation Cadets

World War II

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