Space Day brings hands-on activities and guest appearances to EAA Aviation Museum on October 25
Former NASA aerospace composite tech Jean Wright serves as featured speaker.
Activities will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year’s lineup of activities includes:
- Cup Rockets: Create a mini rocket to launch using cups and rubber bands.
- Mission Patch Contest: Design a mission patch for this year's Space Day theme: Fabric of Space. The winning design will be turned into a sticker and passed out at next year’s Space Day.
- Lunar Landing: Design a lunar module to touch down on the targeted landing site.
- Astro Glove: Create a glove with fingers that move using straws and string
- Compressed Air Rockets: Design a rocket and launch it into space with compressed air
- Mars Rover: Design a hovering rover to explore the surface of Mars.
- Eyewitness to NASA Human & Robotic Explorers: Space Journalist Dr. Ken Kremer will speak about NASA’s human and robotic spaceflight from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Skyscape Theater.
New for 2025, EAA’s 1929 Ford Tri-Motor will be offering flights from the grass runway of Pioneer Airport throughout the day. While not a spacecraft, EAA’s Tri-Motor is painted in the markings of Eastern Air Transport (later renamed Eastern Airlines), where Gemini and Apollo astronaut Frank Borman became president and COO in 1975. Tickets can purchased in advance on the EAA website. Walk-ups will also be welcome.
Beginning at 4 p.m. in the museum’s Eagle Hangar, former NASA aerospace composite tech Jean Wright will tell her story as one of 18 women on NASA’s elite team of “Sew Sister” seamstresses. Wright’s team sewed the flight hardware for the thermal protection systems (TPS) which protected the shuttle and the astronauts from deadly levels of radiation and Earth reentry heats. Wright is the subject of a book titled Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses by Elise Matich. The book will be available for sale along with a book signing by Wright during Space Day.
Space Day is sponsored by Alro Steel & Plastics, C.E. Doyle, Capital Credit Union, Community First Credit Union, Kwik Trip, Pilotsmith, Sargento, and The Taqueria. More information on the day’s activities can be found at EAA.org/SpaceDay.
About EAA Aviation Museum
The EAA Aviation Museum is located just off Interstate 41 at the Highway 44 exit in Oshkosh. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. EAA members receive free museum admission year-round. For more information, call the EAA Aviation Museum at (920) 426-4818 or visit www.EAA.org/museum.
