Soar Together Family Day: Animals in the Air
Virtual: Launches September 13, 2024
Presented Online
Spiders in space? Lions in airplanes? Animals can have aerospace adventures too!
Discover the different roles animals have played in aviation and space science.
Virtual Family Day
Launching Friday, September 13, 2024
Join online for activities, spotlights on history makers, and more.
Online Story Time
Friday, September 13, 2024 at 10:00 am
Join us as author Melissa Trempe reads her book Ladybug Launch: Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space. Discover how Natalia and class of girls from Chile convinced NASA to send ladybugs for a science experiment on a Space Shuttle. We will learn more about these helpful insects and many other different animals that have flown in space and why they were chosen for their missions. After the story we will learn how to make a bug observation station where we can carefully observe beneficial insects in our backyard.
ASL interpretation will be provided.
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