Join us for in-person or online events. We have events going on at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, at the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, around the DC Metropolitan area, and online.
Join us for in-person or online events. We have events going on at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, at the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, around the DC Metropolitan area, and online.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Explore how and why spacesuits were made the way they were, how their design changed over time, and what future spacesuits will look like for astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars.
Join us for a reading of Meghan McCarthy’s children’s book about preparing to go to space, Astronaut Handbook.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Since its large-scale publication in 2014, The Martian has become a cultural phenomenon. National Air and Space Society members are invited to this program featuring The Martian author Andy Weir.
National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
In 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft began its journey to Bennu, a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid, to collect a sample. The sample returned to Earth in 2023. Analysis of the sample promises to provide insights into the formation of the Earth as a habitable world and the origin of life.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
“Adventure is worthwhile,” Amelia Earhart once said. And that has certainly rung true for U.S. Navy pilot and commercial airline captain Tammie Jo Shults (Ret.).
National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
Some of our biggest questions relating to the formation and planetary-scale evolution of Mars can only be addressed by detailed analyses of carefully selected Martian samples in state-of-the-art Earth-based laboratories.