Ongoing Activities from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

1.    Favorite Artifact Voting Station (upper level)
2.    Hands-On Activity: Make Your Own Airplane Banner
3.    Hands-On Activity: Share Your Story with Us
4.    Hands-On Activity: Paper Airplane Contest
5.    Discovery Station: Spacesuit (Extravehicular Mobility Unit)
6.    Discovery Station: Principles of Flight
7.    Meet our Experts: Department of Exhibits
8.    Meet our Experts: Center for Earth and Planetary Sciences
9.    Restoration Hangar Behind the Scenes Tour
          a. Green pin: Tour Entrance (Line closes at 2:00 pm)
          b. Orange pin: Tour Exit

Scheduled Activities

Artifact Spotlights

10.    Pitts Special Little Stinker with Dorothy Cochrane & Brian Nicklas | 10:00 - 10:30 am (upper level)
11.    Space Shuttle Discovery with Jennifer Levasseur and Sarah LeClaire | 10:30 - 11:00 am
12.    Don Piccard Balloon Gondola with Tom Paone | 11:00 - 11:30 am
13.    Corona film return capsule with Jim David | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
14.    Grumman F-14D(R) Tomcat with Mike Hankins | 12:00 - 12:30 pm
15.    Mobile Quarantine Facility with Teasel Muir-Harmony | 12:30 - 1:00 pm
16.    Concorde with Bob Van der Linden | 1:00 - 2:00 pm
17.    Close Encounters Model with Margaret Weitekamp | 1:30 - 2:00 pm
18.    Main Stage
          • 10:15 am: Marsha and the Positrons (music)
          •  11:15am: Interview with Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
          • 1:15 pm: U.S. Air Force brass quintet
19.    Kids Author Corner (upper mezzanine)
          • 11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Our Future in Space by Emily Margolis and Matt Shindell
          • 12:30 - 1:00 pm: Life on the Space Station by Jennifer Levasseur
20.    Book Signings - Museum authors, see sign at station for schedule
21.    Book Signings - Visiting authors (upper level)

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