Soar Together Family Day: Maps and Navigation

About this event

How do you find your way to school, across the country, through the skies, or even to another planet? Explore how people map and navigate their world!

Try hands-on activities , conversations with experts , and navigation and mapmaking experiences .

Families will discover how the concepts of location, direction, and route planning connect everyday travel with aviation and space exploration.

• Discover how maps help us understand places, plan journeys, and find our way every day.

• Learn how pilots navigate through the atmosphere

• Explore the technologies that guide travelers on Earth

• Uncover how scientists map the Moon, Mars, and other worlds

Sponsored by Northrop Grumman.

From National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center