Space Day in Your Neighborhood

Space Day 2009

Celebrating:

Human Space Flight Past, Present and Future

See what's going on in your neighborhood go to events on this Space Day site. You can register your event, too!

Space Day Family Day
May 2, 2009

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.

Over 36,000 kids parents and museum goers enjoyed Space Day Family Day activities including presentations from the crew of STS-119 and three former astronauts, a live conversation with the crew of the International Space Station and loads of hands-on educational activities hosted by Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the National Air and Space Museum. Visitors learned about the Orion -- NASA's replacement for the Space Shuttle, model rocketry, FIRST Robotics, Landsat, then and now lunar exploration, and telescopes.

Sally Ride Career Science Kits

The first 100 who registered their 2009 Space Day in Your Neighborhood event received a FREE Sally Ride Science Classroom Kit "Careers in Space Sciences" containing a teacher's guide and 32 student books.